I was recently in a campground near Grand Falls-Windsor, Nfld. I got to chatting with a guy, I asked him if he knew Jim Beckman from my home in Halifax,who played hockey for years in Grand Falls. He knew him and played with him. I mentioned how Jimmy could shoot the puck left or right handed and could pitch a ball with his left or right hand, He said he remembered that, and then said he would give his right arm to be ambidextrous.

PS: Later that evening, I met the owner of the campground, it was none other than Alex Faulkner, Newfoundland's first player in the National Hockey League.