Halifax native Jack Gray is known as “Mr. Softball”. Jack played sports for a few years while attending Oxford Street School, but became involved in coaching immediately after leaving school.

After a few years in secondary administrative positions, Gray became the President of the Nova Scotia Softball Association. When he took over there were only 34 teams in three classifications. When he retired in 1977 there were close to 360 teams in 20 classifications, totaling 5,400 players.

Jack Gray travelled over 200,000 miles in support of softball. When asked how he found the time he responded that everyone was dedicated to something and he just happened to be dedicated to softball.