About us
OUR HISTORY
Our history starts more than a hundred years ago, with the formation of The Crown Mines Giants in the early 1900’s.
In order to further develop and grow the game of baseball, a junior club was created and so Imps Junior Baseball began. The founding member of this junior section was Eddie Birkett-Sharp.
It was then that Imps moved to Rhodes Park in Kensington where it remained for 26 years.
In 1988 Pat McKinon and Eddie Birkett-Sharp moved the Imps Junior Club, combined with Bedfordview Country Club’s Junior division, to JP Bezuidenhout Park, where the Giants Imps Baseball Club can be found today.
One year later the Giants Imps Senior club moved to join its juniors – forming one club, known today as the Giants Imps Baseball Club.
Pat Mckinon then took over as the Imps Chairman, a position he held for 10 years.
In over 50 years of junior baseball the club has produced numerous provincial and National players.
Eddie Birkett-Sharp & Patrick Mckinon
Life Members
1988
- Eddit Birkett-Sharp
Patrick McKinon
1990
- Moira Dempsey
- Toppie Barrett
2000
- Dean McKinon
2005
- Ron Dempsey
2013
- Graham Scott
Lesley Blount
2014
- Marion Garrett
- Frank Bell
2015
- Paddy van Niekerk
- Lana Bell
- Helga Teixiera
- Keith Teixiera
2019
- Eric Blount
2021
- David Panzenberger
2022
- Darryn Tromp