Duff Slavin, who moved to Burnaby with his wife Linda in 1968 and passed away in 1992, was instrumental in building softball on local, provincial and national levels.

The Softball BC Hall of Fame member was an administrator with Softball Canada from 1978 and 1987 overseeing numerous national championships – from midget/minor to senior men’s and women’s – across the country. He also took on the duties as treasurer of Softball Canada.

Slavin was on Softball BC’s board of directors from 1970 to 1983 and was one of the first organizers of coaching clinics across British Columbia in 1970 and continued to do them for may years to come.

At the local level, Slavin was a board member of the South Hill Sports Association from 1973 to 1987 that brought the 1977 women’s national championship to Vancouver’s South Memorial Park and Burnaby’s Central Park after it had been absent from the province for 10 years. Slavin was part of the group that transformed the South Memorial diamond into one of the sport’s best facilities.