BUDDY SECRIST

ELECTED: NOVEMBER, 1986

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA

INDUCTED: NOVEMBER, 1987

ORLANDO, FLORIDA

THE LATE BUDDY SECRIST, WHO WAS SELECTED FOUR TIMES TO UMPIRE AT THE USSSA WORLD SERIES, WAS INDUCTED INTO THE USSSA HALL OF FAME IN THE UMPIRE CATEGORY.

SECRIST, WHO DIED OF CANCER IN 1983, WAS MR. SOFTBALL IN THE WESTERN MOUNTAINS OF VIRGINIA, ALTHOUGH HIS OUTSTANDING CAREER WAS CUT SHORT AT AGE 45 BY HIS UNFORTUNATE EARLY DEATH, SECRIST LEFT HIS MARK ON USSSA SOFTBALL.

A NATIVE OF THE LITTLE MOUNTAIN TOWN OF BUENA VISTA, VIRGINIA, SECRIST UMPIRED AT FOUR MEN’S WORLD SERIES, EIGHT WORLD TOURNAMENTS, SEVERAL DIVISIONAL TOURNAMENTS AND OVER A DOZEN NIT’S.

HE ONCE SAID HIS GREATEST THRILL AS AN OFFICIAL CAME IN 1974 WHEN HE WAS PICKED TO WORK THE PLATE FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD SERIES AT PINOLE, CALIFORNIA.

ALONG WITH UMPIRING, SECRIST SERVED AS ASSISTANT STATE DIRECTOR IN VIRGINIA AND COACHED A BOY’S YOUTH TEAM.