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11/27/2017

IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The High School Baseball Coaches Association has released its Hall of Fame class for 2018. The induction ceremonies will be held Saturday January 27, 2018 at the Sheraton at Keystone at the Crossing in Indianapolis,

IN. This event will be part of the 3-day IHSBCA state clinic and information is available at www.ihsbca.org Banquet tickets are $45 and available by contacting HOF Chairman Jeff McKeon at 317-445-9899 or [email protected] Brian Abbott- Executive Director IHSBCA Phone: 260 – 356 – 3031 Phone: 260 – 358 – 7310 The class of 2018 contains 2 coaches (Rich Andriole – Cathedral HS / E-Mail: [email protected] Guerin Catholic HS (active) and Pat Murphy – Valparaiso HS (retired)), a contributor (Colin Lister – Fort Wayne (deceased)), a player (LaTroy Hawkins – Ricky Romans – President Gary West HS (retired)) and the Veteran’s Committee nominee (Howard Charlestown High School Phone: 502 – 641 – 2883 Kellman – Indianapolis Indians (active)). E-Mail – [email protected] 2018 will mark Howard Kellman’s 43rd season as Voice of the Indians. st Kevin Hannon – 1 Vice President He has watched more than a million pitches and seen more than 300,000 outs Knox High School Phone: 219 – 242 – 5855 recorded during Indians broadcasts. On June 30, 2017, Kellman broadcasted his E-Mail – [email protected] 6,000th game with the Tribe. Kellman joined the Tribe in 1974 and has been the club’s lead play-by- nd Jeff McKeon – 2 Vice President play announcer each year during that time frame except for the 1975 and 1980 Decatur Central High School seasons. Phone: 317 – 445 – 9899 E-Mail – [email protected] Honored as Indiana’s Sportscaster of the Year in 2002, Kellman has called IHSAA football and basketball games on WHMB-TV 40 since 1990. In Ben McDaniel – 3rd Vice President 2009, he was inducted to the Indiana Sports Writers & Sportscasters Association Columbus North High School Hall of Fame. Most recently, Kellman was inducted into the Indiana Broadcast Phone: 614 – 560 – 5073 E-Mail: [email protected] Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2015. Since joining the Indians, Kellman has also been named to the radio Scott Hughes – Past President broadcast team for three Triple-A All-Star Games, including the 1989 Retired Midsummer Classic in Columbus, Ohio, the 2001 contest at Victory Field and Phone: 317 – 364 – 3333 most recently, the 2013 showcase in Reno, Nev. In addition, he led the broadcast E-Mail: [email protected] team for ESPN’s coverage of the Triple-A World Series from 2006-08. Phil McIntyre –Executive Assistant Along with covering the Tribe, Kellman has worked behind the North Central High School microphone for the (1984) and Cleveland Cavaliers (1988- Home Phone: 317-294-0378 90), called both IHSAA football and basketball games, and served as a sideline E-Mail: [email protected] reporter for Yale football on the YES Television Network (2012). He also filled ASSOCIATION WEB SITE in as a replacement on New York Mets broadcasts in 2014. www.ihsbca.org Kellman currently manages his own professional speaking service which features life lessons drawn from sports-related stories, and published his HALL OF FAME WEB SITE www.indbaseballhalloffame.org book 61 Humorous & Inspiring Lessons I Learned From Baseball in 2010. A graduate of Brooklyn College, Kellman began his early broadcasting days as an announcer for St. John’s University basketball. Howard and his wife, Robin, reside in Carmel, Ind.

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Pat Murphy graduated from Valparaiso High School and St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana. He recorded 483 wins over 28 seasons and this included 13 Sectional Championships and 2 Duneland

Conference Championships. He was honored three times as District Coach of the Year. He also served on numerous IHSBCA committees, had 5 players on the North Squad All-Stars, and was also inducted in Brian Abbott- Executive Director IHSBCA Phone: 260 – 356 – 3031 2010 to the Valparaiso High School Hall of Fame. Phone: 260 – 358 – 7310 Pat and wife of 45 years, Nancy, live in Valparaiso. They have E-Mail: [email protected] two sons. Michael is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps, currently

Ricky Romans – President stationed at Corpus Christi Naval Station in Corpus Christi, Texas. He Charlestown High School and his wife JoAnne have two daughters. Tim has a P.H.D. in Cultural Phone: 502 – 641 – 2883 Anthropology, and is a professor of Urban Studies at Worcester State E-Mail – [email protected] University, in Worcester, Massachusetts. Kevin Hannon – 1st Vice President Knox High School Phone: 219 – 242 – 5855 E-Mail – [email protected] Colin Lister grew up in Australia and moved to Fort Wayne in 1958 due to his involvement with the Fort Wayne Komets professional Jeff McKeon – 2nd Vice President hockey team. He eventually became owner of the team and served in that Decatur Central High School Phone: 317 – 445 – 9899 role until 1985. He never played the game of baseball, but became E-Mail – [email protected] enamored with it when he was asked to umpire a game one day and from that point on he was “all in” with the sport. Ben McDaniel – 3rd Vice President Columbus North High School Once arriving in the United States, he spent 45 years of his life Phone: 614 – 560 – 5073 involved with amateur baseball. That included Connie Mack teams in E-Mail: [email protected] Fort Wayne known as the Komets and the DOX. These teams also

Scott Hughes – Past President played in the older Stan Musial League and included former pro players Retired like Brent Gaff, Andy Replogle, Dave Doster, and Matt Kinzer. Phone: 317 – 364 – 3333 Colin’s legacy in baseball is one of an ambassador for the sport E-Mail: [email protected] and a mentor. His teams won 85% of their games, but he was more Phil McIntyre –Executive Assistant concerned about touching the lives of the people under his tutelage and North Central High School giving of his own resources to see that their needs were met. This is hard Home Phone: 317-294-0378 E-Mail: [email protected] to describe in a short bio, but if you have met the man you completely understand the impact he had on the game and the people around him. ASSOCIATION WEB SITE His honors include being named to the Indiana High School www.ihsbca.org Hockey Hall of Fame, the Fort Wayne Sports Hall of Fame, having No. HALL OF FAME WEB SITE 59 retired on his behalf by the Komets hockey team, and having the local www.indbaseballhalloffame.org Connie Mack League renamed the Colin Lister League.

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LaTroy Hawkins is a 1991 Graduate of West Side HS in Gary,

Indiana where he was a 2-sport athlete in baseball & basketball. He was drafted in the 7th round of the 1991 June amateur draft by the Minnesota Twins. He was a 2-time minor league player of the year in the Twins organization in 1993 & 1994 and then made his major-league debut on th April 29 , 1995 at the age of 22. Brian Abbott- Executive Director IHSBCA Phone: 260 – 356 – 3031 Phone: 260 – 358 – 7310 He played in the big leagues for parts of 21 season as a member E-Mail: [email protected] of the Minnesota Twins; ; ; Baltimore Orioles; Colorado Rockies; New York Yankees; Houston Astros; Ricky Romans – President nd Charlestown High School Milwaukee Brewers; LA Angels; New York Mets; a 2 stint with the Phone: 502 – 641 – 2883 Colorado Rockies; and the Toronto Blue Jays. He made the playoffs 6 E-Mail – [email protected] times in his career reaching the World Series in 2007 with the NL

Kevin Hannon – 1st Vice President Champion Colorado Rockies. Knox High School Phone: 219 – 242 – 5855 LaTroy ranks 10th on MLB’s all-time list in Games Appeared E-Mail – [email protected] with 1,042 over his 21-year career. He is 1 of only 13 relievers in Jeff McKeon – 2nd Vice President baseball history to record a save against all 30 teams and appear in 60 Decatur Central High School plus games in 10 different seasons. On September 11, 2004, he recorded Phone: 317 – 445 – 9899 E-Mail – [email protected] an immaculate inning striking out the side on 9 pitches.

Ben McDaniel – 3rd Vice President LaTroy joined the Minnesota Twins front office in November Columbus North High School Phone: 614 – 560 – 5073 2016 as a Special Assistant to Baseball Operations. His responsibilities E-Mail: [email protected] include: contributing to the development of the organizational pitching philosophy used in the selection and development of all players. He will Scott Hughes – Past President Retired occasionally serve as an analyst for Twins games on Fox Sports North. Phone: 317 – 364 – 3333 E-Mail: [email protected] Rich Andriole is a graduate of Cathedral High School and of the

Phil McIntyre –Executive Assistant University of Dayton. He coached 20 seasons at Indianapolis Cathedral North Central High School HS and had a career record of 504-97. The program won 13 Indianapolis Home Phone: 317-294-0378 City Championships, 13 IHSAA sectional titles, 11 IHSAA regional E-Mail: [email protected] crowns, 6 IHSAA semi-state championships, and won two IHSAA state ASSOCIATION WEB SITE championships in 2001 and in 2007. www.ihsbca.org

HALL OF FAME WEB SITE Coach Andriole has served on various IHSBCA committees, has www.indbaseballhalloffame.org organized and led several youth camps and clinics, has twice been named the South All-Star coach, and has won numerous Coach of the Year honors.

In the fall of 2017, he was named the new head coach at Guerin Catholic High School.

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