Arden Eddie

Arden Eddie (born August 4, 1947) is a former Iron Man player, team owner and manager in the Intercounty Baseball League. He holds several Intercounty records, including most games played (834), most bases on balls (668), most hits (764) and most stolen bases (170).

Off the field, Eddie is a realtor and home renovator. He enjoyed a 36-year career in the Intercounty League (32 years as a player for the London Majors: 1967-1999; 27 years as owner of the Majors: 1976-February 2004), before selling the team to 37-year-old London mortgage consultant Scott Dart after the 2003 baseball season.

Eddie was born in Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada (where he has been inducted into the Wallaceburg Sports Hall of Fame), but moved to London, Ontario, Canada, in 1967 at age 18. A knee injury playing as a sea cadet in Nova Scotia reduced his pro prospects but didn't diminish his enthusiasm for the game of baseball.

In 1967, Eddie started playing for the London Diamonds' junior Intercounty team coached by Mike Fenlon and for the London Majors of the senior Intercounty Baseball League in 1968 at historic Labatt Park, where he played outfield, second base and first base wearing jersey #24.

Eddie was a player on the 1968 Canadian junior champions, the London Diamonds, while also playing games for the London Majors.

The Majors won the senior Intercounty pennant and title in 1975, the last time the London Majors have done so (although when Eddie was a player, the London Pontiacs won the Interconty league pennant in 1968, the pennant and championship in 1969 and the league pennant in 1970 as the London Avcos and the league pennant again in 1988 as the London Majors).

In 1976, Eddie bought the London Majors from George Hall.

In the spring of 1977, Eddie moved the London Majors back into the old team, circa 1937 clubhouse, saving the one-story, cottage-style structure from near-certain demolition. (For the previous decade the clubhouse was being used by the City's Parks and Recreation Department as a storage facility.)

The clubhouse was officially named the Roy McKay Clubhouse on August 1, 1996, in honour of Eddie's mentor, Roy McKay (1933-1995), a former Majors batboy in 1945, pitcher, manager and coach who was born on August 1."See a photo of the Roy McKay Clubhouse at Labatt Park here". Archived from the original on 2004-07-22. 

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