RALPH STONG stands in the BC Sports Hall of Fame with his award
The Diamond Award was presented (o Stong in recognition of his support for Little League

Baseball.

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Fame earlier this month.

*} don’t know why ail this
fanfare — it’s kind of a sur-
prise,”’ he said.

Stong, 70, a third genera-
tion of the Stong family of
supermarket fame, was in-
ducted into the Baseball
Honor Roll with more than
50 years of baseball to his

31 - Sunday, April 14, 1985 - North Shore Ni

Stong enters

By LYNN BLANCHARD

credit.

“I was one of the originals
when we started in Litile
League,’’ said Stong, who
began his affair with baseball
at 17 and later went on to the

ii of Fame

RALPH STONG was shocked when he learned he
was the newest addition to the B.C. Sports Hall of

ranks of semi-pro.

“It was great ~— 1 co
work in the day and play |
at night,”’ recalled Stong.

He was later invoived
coaching and managing
the Pony and Babe Ri
leagues.

Stong’s grandfather mo'
the family business fr

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