Inland Empire Community Newspapers • February 6, 2014 • Page A5 50 years after Ken Hubbs' death his memory continues to live

By Harvey M. Kahn when someone talks in terms of an exceptional local high school ath - t's now 50 years since Ken lete, the name Ken Hubbs is still Hubbs died in a plane crash. mentioned. NFL Hall of Fame For those who remember member Ronnie Lott from Eisen - hearing the news about the great hower High draws the most com - atIhlete and humanitarian from parison. There is no debate that Colton, the pain may have sub - Lott was the best professional ath - sided but the hurt is still there. lete to come from San Bernardino John F. Kennedy had been assassi - County. nated three months earlier. To Although they competed 18 those in the region, the agony of years apart, those who saw both in Ken Hubbs' death compounded high school refrain from opinion that trauma. as to which was the best overall as To their dying days, Euliss and a teen. Hubbs could high jump six- Dorothy Hubbs had hopes that feet in his uniform and their son still might walk in their could pitch with either hand. Both front door. Dorothy Hubbs contin - were power hitting shortstops, ued to attend banquets and memo - quarterbacks, point guards and rials in her son's honor almost until were sprinters. her death at 95 last March. Jerry Magness was a teammate In his junior year at Colton High, of Hubbs at Colton High and was Hubbs made All-CIF Southern Lott's baseball coach at Eisen - Section in three sports. He remains hower. Magness said there were one of four to ever accomplish the similarities. "A foot race between feat. When the the two would be very close. Each signed him in 1959, he was being had good leadership quality and PHOTO /D AVID CREANOR recruited to play quarterback at could always keep you in the Notre Dame and basketball at game. Both inspired others and UCLA. In his era, the Citrus Belt Ken Hubbs pictured at before game in 1962 with mother, Dorothy, father Euliss, could think in advance," said Mag - League included teams from Los and younger brothers. ness, who was also a teammate of Angeles, Riverside, Orange Hubbs on the 1954 Colton LL all- star team. County and San Bernardino. Calfornia. Their train trip to and made a stop at Wrigley Field Hubbs that he'd often make special "Kenny and Ronnie were good Newspaper coverage of high from Williamsport, Pennsylvania where they were special guests of arrangements for his young star. In students, involved in student activ - school sports was front page and for the Little League World Series Dee Fondy, the former San 1962, Wrigley scheduled two ities and winners on and off the bold. The name Ken Hubbs was received big league headlines. Bernardino High alum who was a spring training games with his field. You would want a son like read almost daily from Redlands None of the boys had ever member of the Chicago Cubs. Cubs and Boston Red Sox at Fis - either one," said Magness. to Santa Ana to Pomona. strayed far from Colton and it was Nine years later Hubbs earned the calini Field in San Bernardino. Lott was able to accomplish one In 1954, before there were Major considered first class to ride the rookie-of-the- This was reported to be so that more great feat. He won the 1977 League Baseball teams on the west train. Kids like Ken Hubbs didn't year honor on that same field. Hubbs could perform closer to his Ken Hubbs Award. coast, the Colton Lions Little like flying. All-star teammate Chicago Cubs owner Phillip K. hometown fans. League all-star team were front Danny Carrasco once said the train Wrigley thought so much of Today, more than 50 years later page readers throughout Southern

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