Long-time Yorkton baseball volunteer Bryce Jacobs will be one of six members of the Yorkton Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2014 to be inducted into the Yorkton Sports Hall of Fame and Museum this year, when the YSHOF holds its Induction Banquet on Saturday, September 27.
But this is not the first time that Jacobs has been acknowledged for his hard work and dedication to Yorkton's minor baseball program.
Jacobs, who has been very active in the city's baseball community for many years, was previously acknowledged in 2010 by both the Saskatchewan Baseball Association (SBA) and Major League Baseball (MLB) as the SBA Builder of the Year and MLB's Volunteer of the Year Award for Saskatchewan, as well as putting his name to many smaller recognitions and achievements such as helping Yorkton Minor Baseball host back-to-back Western Championships in 2004 and 2005 and going to the Junior Nationals with the Yorkton Jr. Cardinals in 2008 and 2010.
However the man that became synonymous with Yorkton Minor Baseball throughout his years as umpire, coach, manager, baseball director, president and all around volunteer can initially credit, not himself, but his wife and children for his involvement in baseball throughout the city. "I started out when my wife signed the kids up in 1990 I believe it was," said Jacobs. "The next year I started to coach and then became baseball director for a few years and then became the president after a while.
"But it was 1990-91 when I started."
Throughout the years Jacobs has seen it all. From managing and coaching championship teams, to hosting major tournaments, to even helping local ball players realize their potential and go off to college or play minor professional baseball, he truly has been a driving force behind the success that Yorkton Minor Baseball has seen over the past few decades.
And you know what? He'd do it all again, even if he wasn't recognized for any of his impressive achievements. "If I didn't enjoy it I wouldn't be there," said Jacobs, continuing, "you do what you enjoy and I enjoy doing it.
"I am good with that."
