Photo courtesy of: Highland Park Funeral Centre
Family, friends and former teammates of Phil McKeating are remembering his many contributions, including his helping found and establish the Peterborough Men’s Senior Slo-Pitch League.
McKeating passed away November 7th. He was 94 years old.
Back in 1990, when Don Mark arrived in Peterborough from Scarborough only to find there wasn’t a senior men’s softball league, he enlisted the help of others, including McKeating, to form the Peterborough Men’s Senior Slo-Pitch League. To this day, the league plays out of Kinsmen Park, and counts among its alumni the likes of Bobby Crowe, Greg Marchen and Clair Leahy.
As recently as last summer, McKeating regularly came out to the league’s season opening day to reminisce and pay tribute to players who passed over the course of the winter.
McKeating was also a charter member of, and player with, the Peterborough Senior Men’s Hockey League, and a longtime member of the Heron Landing Golf Club well into his 90s.
A memorial reception for McKeating will be held this Friday (November 13), noon to 2 p.m., at Highland Park Funeral Centre. Donations to the Five Counties Children’s Centre or PRHC are requested in his memory.
