Douglas Peden

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James Douglas Peden (born April 18, 1916 in Victoria , † April 11, 2005 ibid) was a Canadian track cyclist , basketball and baseball player .

Douglas Peden was one of the best Canadian all-round athletes of his time. He practiced basketball, baseball and cycling at the professional level and was also an excellent rugby and soccer player , track and field athlete , swimmer and tennis player .

Peden started in 37 six-day races , together with his ten-year-old brother William Peden , the most successful Canadian cyclist at the time, he won six of them. In 1939 he was also the Canadian sprint champion .

Between 1935 and 1949, Douglas Peden was an intermittent professional basketball and baseball player. In 1936 he took part in the Olympic Games in Berlin with the Canadian national basketball team and won the silver medal. In 1935 ("Victoria Blue Ribbons") and 1946 ("Victoria Dominoes") he was Canadian champion with his respective teams. In 1941 he played baseball for one season with the House of David team. In 1942 and from 1946 to 1949 he was a member of various minor league teams of the Pittsburgh Pirates , in 1942 he was a first season as first baseman for the Hutchinson Pirates , a farm team in the Western Association . After a three-year break - during the Second World War - he was briefly used as an outfielder from 1946 , but returned to his original playing position, most recently with the Fargo-Moorhead Twins in the Northern League .

After retiring from his active sports career, Peden worked for the Victoria Times as a sports editor for 26 years . In 1967 Douglas Peden was inducted into the " BC Sports Hall of Fame" and in 1979 into " Canada's Sport Hall of Fame ". He has the same family roots in Scotland as the Australian-New Zealand track cyclist Anthony Peden .

literature

  • Roger De Maertelaere: De Mannen van de Nacht , Eeklo 2000, p. 232f.
  • Jacq van Reijendam: 6-daagsen Statistics 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Douglas Peden - Six Day Racing Canada. In: 6dayracing.ca. April 13, 2005, accessed January 20, 2020 . (English)
personal data
SURNAME Peden, Douglas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peden, Doug (short name); Peden, Douglas James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian cyclist and basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Victoria (British Columbia)
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 2005
Place of death Victoria (British Columbia)