(Story & Photo by Marco Stoovelaar)
IN MEMORIAM
...Jan Meijer...
(1930 - 2017) |
 Former player/umpire/administrator Jan Meijer passed away
Nederlands
 DIEMEN (Neth.) -
Jan Meijer, who played in the highest Dutch baseball-league and also was a baseball-umpire for several years, has passed away on Saturday, May 20, one day before his 87th birthday.
The memorial and cremation service will be held on Monday, May 29 at Crematorium De Nieuwe Ooster at the Kruislaan 126 in Amsterdam.
The ceremony begins at 1:30 PM.
Amsterdam-born Jan Meijer played baseball mostly for ABC (Amsterdam Baseball Club), with whom he played in the highest Dutch baseball-league for several seasons.
He kept on playing until a high age, but he played his final game at the highest level in the main squad of ABC during the 1968 season at age 38.
However, he continued playing thereafter at a lower level.
Meijer mostly played in the outfield, but also was used as a pitcher.
He remained very active throughout the years for ABC, which was one of the oldest baseball- and softball-clubs in the country, but was disbanded in 1996.
At ABC, Jan Meijer held several positions, including being a member of the board and serving as the club's chairman for many years.
After concluding his playing career, Meijer was a baseball-umpire for some ten years starting in the early seventies.
He also led games at the national level for five years.
In that same period, he was a member of the Accomodation Committee of the Dutch Association (KNBSB) fo five years.
In the eighties, Meijer was a club-representative during council meetings of the Dutch Association.
From 1987 to 1990, he was a member for some years in the Financial Committee of the then existing Rayon Amsterdam.
These were also the years that he was closely associated with the alumni- and baseball/softball-promotion organization 'De Kieviten'.
From 1984 to 1991, he was a member of the board of this club.
In following years, Jan Meijer remained a frequent visitor of baseball-games, including games at the Haarlem Baseball Week.
On the photo, he attends a game of the Netherlands Baseball Team during the Haarlem Baseball Week of 2012.
The webmaster of Grand Slam * Stats & News offers his condolences to Jan Meijer's family and wishes them a lot of strength with this big loss.
(May 28)
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