Glen Johnson

• BIRTHPLACE Winnipeg, MB

• INDUCTED 2016

Glen Johnson was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Johnson contributed immensely to baseball in Manitoba as an umpire and as an administrator. He began umpiring in the 1970s, and over the course of his career he umpired at all levels of national and international tournaments. In the Atlanta Summer Olympics of 1996, he became the youngest umpire to work at the Olympic level. Johnson was the plate umpire for the exhibition match between the Toronto Blue Jays and Team Canada in 1992. Throughout his career, Johnson developed, instructed and supervised multiple umpire clinics. He was the inaugural recipient of Baseball Canada’s Umpire of the Year in 1993, and he served as as president of Baseball Manitoba from 1993-1996. Johnson was also a director of Baseball Manitoba for seven years.