Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association INDIANA h.s. Baseball news Volume XLV—Issue 2 December 2017 HALL OF FAME TO INDUCT 5 NEW MEMBERS The IHSBCA Hall of Fame will expand by five 2018 Hall of Fame Inductees members when inductions take place during the 2018 State Clinic. The IHSBCA member- RICH ANDRIOLE - Cathedral & Guerin ship selected two coaches, a player, and 1 Catholic H.S. contributor. The veterans committee selected Rich Andriole is a graduate of Cathedral one contributor as well to round out the 2018 High School and of the University of Day- Hall of Fame class. ton. He coached 20 seasons at Indianapolis Inside this issue: Cathedral HS and had a career record of The Hall of Fame Banquet will begin at 7:00 504-97. The program won 13 Indianapolis City Championships, 13 IHSAA sectional p.m. Saturday night and the induction of the titles, 11 IHSAA regional crowns, 6 IHSAA 2018 class will be the highlight of the event semi-state championships, and won two HOF Inductees & 1-2 held in conjunction with the State Baseball IHSAA state championships in 2001 and in Bio Information Clinic. Also being honored that evening will 2007. be the State Coaches of the Year and the 16 Coach Andriole has served on various IHS- 2018 IHSBCA 3 BCA committees, has organized and led Committees coaches chosen as their District COTY. several youth camps and clinics, has twice been named the South All-Star coach, and Clinic Registration 4 Coaches who have reached a plateau in victo- has won numerous Coach of the Year hon- and Hotel Info ries will also be presented awards for their ors. achievements at the banquet. In the fall of 2017, he was named the new JR showcase info. 5 head coach at Guerin Catholic High School. The awards banquet is just one of the many Ex. Director Update & 6 events/activities planned for the three day HOF expansion coaches clinic which begins on Friday evening Hall of Fame Inductees Continued on Page 2 List of HOF members 7 and concludes at noon on Sunday. Again this year, the IHSAA rules meeting will be held on Sunday morning prior to the con- clusion of the clinic for coaches wanting to 2017-18 take advantage of that opportunity. I.H.S.B.C.A. DATES IHSBCA State Clinic - 2018 STATE CLINIC UPDATE January 26-28 The IHSBCA State Clinic com- Rich Maloney– Ball State U. are confirmed and topics for Hall of Fame Induction - January 27th mittee is busy making final head coach, Tracy Archuletta– the sessions are finalized, the First Official Practice - preparations for the annual U. Southern Indiana head agenda for the clinic will be March 12th event. Westfield H.S. Head coach, Nick Otte - asst. coach available on our website and First Official Game - Coach Ryan Bunnell is work- Xavier U., and Dustin Butcher- Twitter. March 26th ing on lining up a great group asst. coach U. of St. Francis We hop to have this informa- State Tourney Starts of presenters for this years As we did last year, the four tion posted by the end of the May 23rd in 2018 clinic. State Champion Coaches will month. State Finals June 15th & 16th Some of those confirmed to also present on Friday. present are: Mik Aoki - head 2018 North/South All- As the last couple of speakers Series at Four Winds coach U. of Notre Dame, Field in South Bend Page 2 INDIANA H.S.BASEBALL NEWS Volume XLV ISSUE 2 2018 HALL of FAME INDUCTEES—Continued PAT MURPHY - Valparaiso High School COLIN LISTER - Contributor (cont.) Pat Murphy graduated from Valparaiso High School and St. Once arriving in the United States, he spent 45 years of Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana. He recorded 483 his life involved with amateur baseball. That included wins over 28 seasons and this included 13 Sectional Cham- Connie Mack teams in Fort Wayne known as the Komets pionships and 2 Duneland Conference Championships. He and the DOX. These teams also played in the older Stan was honored three times as District Coach of the Year. He Musial League and included former pro players like Brent also served on numerous IHSBCA committees, had 5 play- Gaff, Andy Replogle, Dave Doster, and Matt Kinzer. ers on the North Squad All-Stars, and was also inducted in Colin’s legacy in baseball is one of an ambassador for the 2010 to the Valparaiso High School Hall of Fame. Pat and sport and a mentor. His teams won 85% of their games, wife of 45 years, Nancy, live in Valparaiso. They have two but he was more concerned about touching the lives of the sons. Michael is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps, people under his tutelage and giving of his own resources currently stationed at Corpus Christi Naval Station in Cor- to see that their needs were met. This is hard to describe pus Christi, Texas. He and his wife JoAnne have two in a short bio, but if you have met the man you completely daughters. Tim has a P.H.D. in Cultural Anthropology, and understand the impact he had on the game and the people is a professor of Urban Studies at Worcester State Univer- around him. sity, in Worcester, Massachusetts. His honors include being named to the Indiana High School Hockey Hall of Fame, the Fort Wayne Sports Hall of Fame, having No. 59 retired on his behalf by the LaTROY HAWKINS - Player Komets hockey team, and having the local Connie Mack LaTroy Hawkins is a 1991 Graduate of West Side HS in League renamed the Colin Lister League. 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- HOWARD KELLMAN - Contributor time minor league player of the year in the Twins organiza- 2018 will mark Howard Kellman’s 43rd season as Voice of tion in 1993 & 1994 and then made his major-league debut the Indians. He has watched more than a million pitches on April 29th, 1995 at the age of 22. and seen more than 300,000 outs recorded during Indi- He played in the big leagues for parts of 21 season as a ans broadcasts. On June 30, 2017, Kellman broadcasted member of the Minnesota Twins; Chicago Cubs; San Fran- his 6,000th game with the Tribe. Kellman joined the Tribe cisco Giants; Baltimore Orioles; Colorado Rockies; New in 1974 and has been the club’s lead play-byplay an- York Yankees; Houston Astros; Milwaukee Brewers; LA Angels; New York Mets; a 2nd stint with the Colorado nouncer each year during that time frame except for the Rockies; and the Toronto Blue Jays. He made the playoffs 6 1975 and 1980 seasons. Honored as Indiana’s Sports- times in his career reaching the World Series in 2007 with caster of the Year in 2002, Kellman has called IHSAA the NL Champion Colorado Rockies. football and basketball games on WHMB-TV 40 since LaTroy ranks 10th on MLB’s all-time list in Games Ap- 1990. In 2009, he was inducted to the Indiana Sports peared with 1,042 over his 21-year career. He is 1 of only 13 Writers & Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame. Most relievers in baseball history to record a save against all 30 recently, Kellman was inducted into the Indiana Broad- teams and appear in 60 plus games in 10 different seasons. cast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2015. Since joining the Indi- On September 11, 2004, he recorded an immaculate inning ans, Kellman has also been named to the radio broadcast striking out the side on 9 pitches. team for three Triple-A All-Star Games, including the LaTroy joined the Minnesota Twins front office in Novem- 1989 Midsummer Classic in Columbus, Ohio, the 2001 ber 2016 as a Special Assistant to Baseball Operations. His contest at Victory Field and most recently, the 2013 show- responsibilities include: contributing to the development of the organizational pitching philosophy used in the selection case in Reno, Nev. In addition, he led the broadcast team and development of all players. He will occasionally serve for ESPN’s coverage of the Triple-A World Series from as an analyst for Twins games on Fox Sports North. 2006-08. Along with covering the Tribe, Kellman has worked behind the microphone for the Chicago White Sox COLIN LISTER - Contributor (1984) and Cleveland Cavaliers (1988- 90), called both IHSAA football and basketball games, and served as a Colin Lister grew up in Australia and moved to Fort Wayne sideline reporter for Yale football on the YES Television in 1958 due to his involvement with the Fort Wayne Network (2012). He also filled in as a replacement on New Komets professional hockey team. He eventually became York Mets broadcasts in 2014. Kellman currently manages owner of the team and served in that role until 1985. He his own professional speaking service which features life never played the game of baseball, but became enamored lessons drawn from sports-related stories, and published with it when he was asked to umpire a game one day and his book 61 Humorous & Inspiring Lessons I Learned from that point on he was “all in” with the sport. From Baseball in 2010. A graduate of Brooklyn College, Kellman began his early broadcasting days as an an- nouncer for St. John’s University basketball. Howard and his wife, Robin, reside in Carmel, Ind. December 2017 INDIANA H.S.