Melbourne Stoughton
BIRTHPLACE Gilbert Plains, MB
BORN July 17, 1922
INDUCTED 2016
Melbourne Stoughton was born in Gilbert Plains, Manitoba on July 17, 1922. Stoughton was a hard-working and valuable coach who had an amazing ability to work with youth through sports. He spent over two decades organizing teams and tournaments, preparing diamonds, and coaching his hometown of Gilbert Plains. Stoughton’s teams won five Manitoba Championships and three Western Canada Championships at two different levels between 1965 and 1968. He went on to become director of the Manitoba Baseball Association in the 1960s, and spent nine years as the scorekeeper and statistician for the Grandview Lakers senior team in the Manitoba Senior Baseball League during the 1970s.
These articles were gathered from the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, Winnipeg Tribune Collection
