The 2019 National Sports Hall of Fame inductees will have to wait a bit longer this year, before they are showcased and saluted. The celebration normally takes place at Government House with the governor general of The Bahamas as the patron. The event was initially scheduled for the final weekend of November, but C.A. Smith, governor general, has a travel engagement. He will be available, though, for Tuesday, December 3, and that’s when due tributes will be paid to the new class. As always, those selected represent a group of stalwart contributors to sports development in the country, over many years. In my view, the most unsung of the group is Stancil “Stoney” Ferguson, and today, I place him in the spotlight, a place he has seldom been throughout his long and productive sporting career. Ferguson has always been somewhat of an enigma. In the early years, he was quiet and mysterious. He would be in a setting and hardly utter a word. How he came out of the bosom of a St. Bernard’s/Kentucky Colonels community, to end up being one of the pillars of the Old Oak/Beck’s Cougars franchise, is still puzzling to some.

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