Lorna Robertson

• BIRTHPLACE Hamiota, MB

• BORN July 19, 1939

• INDUCTED 2026

Lorna Robertson was born on July 19, 1939, and resides in Hamiota, Manitoba. Robertson has supported her hometown of Hamiota for seventy years, committing herself to the events and organizations that have made life in Hamiota and the district enjoyable and fulfilling. Her volunteer efforts earned her a Woman of Distinction Award from Western YMCA in 1985, and a Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Award for Community Service and Involvement in 2012. Robertson has not only been a prominent leader in baseball, but basketball, volleyball, fastball, and hockey as well. In her baseball career, Robertson was a tireless worker for the Hamiota Red Sox in the Manitoba Senior Baseball League from 1961 through 1990. She organized supplies and staff for the canteen, arranged for batboys and ball chasers, sold 50/50 tickets, took money at the gate, and along with her husband Al, provided post-game food and beverages at her home. Robertson helped organize the Hamiota Junior Red Sox that both developed players for the Senior team and went on to play in a Yellowhead League for five seasons. In the 1970s and 1980s, Robertson was a coach for youth baseball. Her teams won at least seven provincial championships. During this time, particularly when she was President of Hamiota’s youth baseball organization, she ordered uniforms, arranged for coaches and umpires, scheduled the American imports who ran practices with youth teams, oversaw the canteen activities, and supervised the construction of three impressive new baseball diamonds.