Keith Carriere
BIRTHPLACE Winnipeg, MB
BORN April 21, 1971
INDUCTED 2021
Keith Carriere was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on April 21, 1971. Carriere was heavily involved in baseball from a young age, playing for the Legion 141 midget and junior AAA teams, as well as with the Canadian Polish Athletic Club as a pitcher and infielder for much of his teenage years. Carriere was on the league all-star team for two of his years in midget, and went to the Western Canadian Baseball Championship as a member of Interlake and Winnipeg South. He was also Baseball Manitoba’s Minor Player of the Year in 1987. In Junior, Carriere was a regular starting pitcher and played all four infield positions. He was named a league all-star in 1989, 1990, and 1991, and he went to a Western Canadian Baseball Championship for the Elmwood Giants in 1989. Carriere went on to pitch for Team Manitoba in the 1989 Canada Summer Games, and also played senior baseball with Legion 141 of the Redboine Baseball League, as well as with the Elmwood Giants of the Winnipeg Senior Baseball League from 1999-2004. With Elmwood, he brought home two gold medals and one silver medal from the Western Canadian Baseball Championship. Carriere was a perennial all-star in both senior leagues and won league MVP in 2000 for Elmwood. After 2010, he helped coach his children in the North Winnipeg Minor Baseball Association.
