Guy Yerama

• BIRTHPLACE Gilbert Plains, MB

• BORN July 20, 1962

• INDUCTED 2026

Guy Yerama was born on July 20, 1962, in Gilbert Plains, Manitoba, and currently resides in Toronto, Ontario. Growing up in Gilbert Plains, Yerama was a part of the youth baseball teams in the village from 1967 through 1978. While in high school, he played both competitive baseball and competitive fastball. Yerama was a member of a Gilbert Plains team that won two provincial championships. From 1979 through 1981, Yerama played baseball on both the Grandview Midget team and the Grandview Lakers of the Manitoba Senior Baseball League. Over the following years, Yerama was a catcher and occasional player-coach for teams in the Manitoba Senior Baseball League, the Border League, the Red Boine League, and the Winnipeg Intermediate Baseball League. From 1990 to 2010, Yerama concentrated on coaching several Manitoba provincial teams. Yerama became the founder and first President of the Winnipeg Intermediate Baseball League in 1990, which later became the Winnipeg Senior Baseball League. He remained President until 1996. In 2000, Yerama started a baseball academy in Winnipeg, which competed against teams from the USA. In 2009 to 2010, he worked with Mike Krykewich to form the University of Winnipeg team that played in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics until 2017. Yerama continued to coach baseball when he moved to Toronto in 2010. He has coached over 100 players who reached college-level baseball.