Patrick Kennedy

Patrick Kennedy, who hails from Kingston, Ont., retired in 2017 after a 30-year stint covering news and sports for the Kingston Whig-Standard. He was a catcher on Kingston all-star clubs in midget, junior and later senior teams, as well as the Edmonton Tigers of the Alberta Major Baseball League, where teammates included future Edmonton Oiler defenceman (Dr.) Randy Gregg. Among his numerous strikeouts were two at the hands of future big-league pitchers, then Chatham midget-aged righthander and future Montreal Expo Bill Atkinson (1971) and in 1976 against then-Alaska Goldpanner and future Baltimore Oriole Mike Boddicker.

Kennedy's bi-monthly column appears in the Whig-Standard and other Postmedia publications. He resides in Kingston with wife Lorraine and young son Joe, youngest of the couple's three children and a righthander with big-league dreams.