Monday, May 28, 2012
To Faye, Lisa, Lori & husbands,
It is with great sadness that I share with your entire famiy on your recent loss of Dave. We moved back to Cranbrook in 1992 and I began to coach baseball again. At the time my daughter Kelly was in Midgets so I coached one of those teams while Dave and Allan Coles coached the Pee Wee Rep Team. Those were the best of times and I loved to coach against them. They were all about honesty, fair play and teaching the skills to all the players to get them to play to the best of their ability. There was a rule back then that if at game time if you didn't have 8 players on the field you forfeited the game. Dave and Allan wouldn't go for that rule and neither did I as we would loan a player or two to the other side to get the game going and as the players showed up we took our players back. Our team was older and stronger at certain positions but their team was smaller, quick and talented. I remember one game that was very close and we were playing them in one of the tournaments. Lisa, you had come up to bat and hit in the winning run. I will never forget your Dad as he pretended to get mad at his own daughter hitting in that run, but I knew in my heart, as a father, that he was bursting inside with pride that you had learned to bat like that. As you kids moved on I became an umpire like him and Allan and we spent many more hours on the ball fields. It was an honor to have coached aginst him and I will never forget his traits of fair play, modesty and his passion for the game and teaching it to so many other people. Kindest Regards- Dick Robinson
