Guelph Sports Hall Fame and Italian Canadian Club

Rickey Henderson: It was a pretty fun night." As baseball great Brock talked that night about losing his all-time stolen base record to Rickey Henderson a couple of weeks earlier, Mullin had no thoughts about being an inductee a couple of decades later. "You always hope that maybe one day you'll get that opportunity," he said. "Fortunately enough for myself, I did." Wednesday night at the Italian Canadian Club, Mullin was one of this year four inductees into the Guelph Sports Hall of Fame. "I'm pretty excited," Mullin said of being added to the Hall. "It a great honour, according to Guelph Mercury. There a lot of great people hanging on the wall down there at the Sleeman Centre, and I'm certainly very excited to be a part of it." Forming the Class of 2015 with Mullin, the athlete inductee, were ringette referee Steve Blacklock in the officials category, cyclist Egidio Bolzon in the veteran athlete category, and coaching development and certification co-ordinator Terry Valeriote in the builder category. I remember Lou Brock and whatnot. The year he first attended the sports celebrity dinner as a head table guest, Mullin was picked 23rd overall by the Windsor Spitfires in the OHL draft. After his time in the OHL, Mullin would win a pair of championships, the first being the Guelph Gryphons' Canadian university men championship in 1997. "When you get an opportunity to win a championship, it pretty special," he said. "I was lucky enough to be a part of three championship teams with the Canada Games championship, University of Guelph national championship in '97, and in '98 I played for the Quad City Mallards in the old Colonial League and we won a Colonial Cup with them. He would end up playing four seasons in the league, that time split between the Spitfires and Sudbury Wolves, and he'd earn 65 regular-season victories. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.