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Lund built a baseball dynasty in Lampman

Arnold Lund of Lloydminster, Alta. will be inducted into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame, Individual Category, as a Builder, Saturday, Aug. 18 in Battleford. Lund was born in Elkhorn, Man. Dec.
Arnold Lund
Arnold Lund coached the Lampman A’s to several provincial titles in the late 1980s and early ‘90s. Photo submitted

Arnold Lund of Lloydminster, Alta. will be inducted into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame, Individual Category, as a Builder, Saturday, Aug. 18 in Battleford.

Lund was born in Elkhorn, Man. Dec. 29, 1945, where he played minor baseball and was a member of the senior team when they won the provincial title. Employed with Imperial Oil, he moved to Estevan and for the years he spent in there, coached minor baseball. In 1974, Lund moved to Lampman, where he started coaching midget ball. As these same players graduated from high school and discovered there was no room on the roster of the senior team, they asked Arnold to start a second senior team in Lampman.  Lampman A’s baseball emerged.

For the first few years for the Lampman A’s tournament and league games, resulted in early exits with wins few and far between, however, under the guidance of Lund, the team improved each year, winning the Saskota Baseball League Championshop. This team entered the provincial playoffs for the first time in 1986.

The A’s were provincial senior D champions in 1986 [defeated the Dinsmore Dinos in the final], ’87, ’88 [beat Mervin], ’92 and ’93 and provincial C champions in ’94.

Lund coached this team until 1996, when his work took him to live in Lloydminster. There he was immediately recruited to coach the senior team. From 1997 to 2007 he guided the Lloydminster Twins to two provincial finals.

Lund was president of the Saskota Baseball League for seven years, attending meetings and promoting baseball in Southeast Saskatchewan. While in Lampman, Lund spearheaded the construction of a second baseball diamond. Upon completion of this field, Lund successfully turned his efforts into making the local spors day into a two-day event, with  teams. He was instrumental in getting the support of the local Lions Club to offer a larger cash prize, resulting in baseball teams from Manitoba and North Dakota competing.

Lund and his wife, Bernadette, spend their summers at the lake north of Lloydminster, and the winters in Phoenix, Ariz., playing golf, socializing and watching major league teams go through spring training.