Roy Seidler
BIRTHPLACE Giroux, MB
BORN August 6, 1948
INDUCTED 2005
Roy Seidler was born in Giroux, Manitoba on August 6, 1948. Seidler started playing baseball at the age of 15 with Giroux Athletics, and continued playing ball for 38 years. He spent 14 years playing twilight ball, winning three western Canada titles from 1988-90. Seidler then played with Team Alberta for three years in the Senior Baseball World Series in Arizona. He was the Redboine League Pitcher of the Year in 1980, but also a dangerous base runner. Twice in one season, he stole second, third, and home during the same at-bat. Seidler was the coach of the Redboine All-Stars in 1981 at the Nationals in Winnipeg. He played with the Carillon Sultans for eight years, winning five Western Senior Baseball League championships. For another eight years, Seidler was the founding president of the Carillon Minor Baseball League, which formed over 100 teams to register with Baseball Manitoba. He also started midget, junior, and senior baseball in the Eastman region. Seidler was inducted into the Manitoba Baseball Association (MBA) Honour Society in 1996, went on to spend three years with the MBA Competition Committee. He was a director of the Canadian Old Timers Association, and he was active in high school athletics and minor hockey.
