Hall of Fame

Mr. Wayne Myers,
Indiana ASA State Commissioner

Indiana ASA
Hall of Fame

PURPOSE In 1978 the Indiana ASA Hall of Fame was established to honor those men and women who have played a major role in the growth and development of the Hoosier brand of softball. It is one of the greatest softball programs in the nation.

ELIGIBILITY - PLAYERS/UMPIRES To be selected to the Indiana ASA Hall of Fame a player or umpire must have been an active player or umpire in ASA whose active playing or umpiring days have been terminated for a minimum of three(3) years. The player or umpire must also have attained a state-wide level of fame.

ELIGIBILITY - SPONSORS/MANAGERS To be selected to the Indiana ASA Hall of Fame from this category, the sponsor or manager must have attained a state-wide level of fame.

ELIGIBILITY - MERITORIOUS SERVICE To be selected to the Indiana ASA Hall of Fame from this category, the person must have performed service for the good of the Indiana ASA above the normal range of service. This service should have been performed over a considerable length of time and have wide-reaching benefits to the teams and players in Indiana ASA.

ELIGIBILITY - COMMISSIONERS To be selected to the Indiana ASA Hall of Fame from this category, the Commissioner must have performed service for the good of Indiana ASA. This service shall have been performed over a minimum of ten (10) years.

Anyone previously named to the National ASA Hall of Fame/Hall of Honor automatically qualifies for the Indiana ASA Hall of Fame.

The Indiana ASA Hall of Fame inductees are selected by the Indiana ASA Hall of Fame Committee. It is recommended that managers, players, and umpires maintain records of their performance in order to qualify them for consideration at a latter date.

Any Indiana ASA official (District Commissioners, umpire, etc.) has the authority to nominate individuals for consideration by the Hall of Fame Committee. Official nomination forms are available from the State Commissioner and must be submitted to the Chair of the Hall of Fame Committee by December 31^st to be considered for that year's Hall of Fame Banquet.

INDIANA ASA HALL OF FAME COMMITTEE

John Byers, Co-Chair	Dick Zurbriggen	Jim McClain	Hardy Ashbrook	Bill Johnson
Leon Zachary, Co-Chair	Jerry Bob Catt	Don Powers	Don Kanouse	Dave Nolan
John Hoffman, Co-Chair and Inductor	Herb Price	Jim Ellis

The Indiana ASA Hall of Fame is financed through sanction fees paid for invitational tournaments. We sincerely hope that all District Commissioners will sanction their invitational tournaments through Hardy Ashbrook, at the address / telephone number indicated below. The entire tournament sanction fee is used to defray the expenses of the Indiana ASA Hall of Fame.

The Indiana Chapter and the Indianapolis Chapter of the Indiana ASA Hall of Fame are listed below.

Indiana Chapter

1978
Arnold "BoBo" Bennett – Terre Haute *	Jim Ramage – Fort Wayne #*
Ronald Kronewitter – Mishawaka #	Hughis Johnston – Fort Wayne #
Ervin "Ike" Bierwagon – South Bend *	Don Rains – Frankfort *
Leo Luken – Fort Wayne #	Bernie Kampschmidt – Fort Wayne #
John Bonic – Lansing, IL *	Helen Taylor – Terre Haute *
Dalt Monroe – Terre Haute *	John Keagle – Hammond
Stan Corrigan – Cincinnati, OH *	Bill West – Detroit, MI #*
Brice McCann – Goshen	Sue Jones – Logansport
Sharon Crossland – Peru *	Norman "Lefty" Wade – Goshen
Cornelius "Speed" Owen – Elkhart	Ruth Ann Jones – Terre Haute
Bob Faucett – Richmond	Fred Zollner – Fort Wayne #*
George Papich – Schererville *	Harry Kraft – South Bend
Bill House – St. Paul *

1979
Walter "Jerk" Heikelbach – Jasper *	Wayne Myers – Terre Haute
Glynn Ashcraft – Shelbyville	Dick Reed – Muncie
Bill Maglie – South Bend

1980
Harold Englehardt – Indianapolis #@*	Donna Schwenk – Knox *
Vern Krauss – Fort Wayne *	Marion Vickery – Peru *
Horace “Tennessee” Long – Gary	Archie Wilshire – Peru

1981
Tony Dyer – Elkhart *	Eddie Mayhew – Indianapolis #
Junior Foley – Gary	Annie Savini – Logansport
Rollin “Maggie” Loundsbury – Muncie

1982
Orie Chandler – Indianapolis @*	Maxine Thayer – Indianapolis
Mario DiFiori – Mishawaka	James Vickery – Peru
Harry "Hap" Keightly – Hammond

1983
Hardy Ashbrook – Peru	Elmer McDonald – Fort Wayne *
Arnold Red Halpern – Coeur D'Alene#@	John Sunday – Denver
John Juranovich – Hammond *

1984
Mary Conner – Lowell *	Junior Mannies – Peru *
Guy Fisher – Lafayette *	Jim Wells - Shelbyville

1985
Larry Bartley – Jasper	Charles McCord – Chillicothe, IL #@*
Joe Bradley – Shelbyville	Earl Mishler – South Bend
Lew Browning – Shelbyville	Don Pence – Danville
Harold "Punchy" Cone – Kokomo	Cecil White – Valparaiso

1986
Ed Howard – Evansville *	Don Shiflet – Bloomington
Bill Humphrey – Midland, MI #@	Bill Soder – Terre Haute
Andy Loechner – Lancaster, PA #@	Wally "Dado" Vernasco - Mishawaka
Ronald "Sam" Rothy – Mishawaka	Wendell Whitehead – Goshen *
Herb Swartz – Goshen

1987
Ernie Blackburn – Hammond *	Cliff Runnebohm – Shelbyville *
George Jones – Evansville	Chet Tranacki – South Bend *
Gene Knapp – Evansville *

1988
Ray Bird – Muncie	Clete Moore – Shelbyville
Cliff Gaze – Fort Wayne *	Harvey Turpin – Bedford

1989
Bill Books – Goshen	Leroy Hostetler – Middlebury
Willard Chambers – Marion	Bill Smith – Fremont, NE #@
Robert "Bobby" Dempsey – Shelbyville *	Charlie Vicars – Terre Haute

1990
Bob Dubios – Peru	Pat Adkison – Gadsen, AL @
Tom Gourley – Kokomo	John Phillips – Dallas, TX @
John Hoffman – West Lafayette

1991
Speedy Cole – Shelbyville	Phil Glaze – Marion
Milk Bird – Marion	Chuck Davenport – Topeka, KS @
Ron Carmin – Marion

1992
Sherry Benefield - Terre Haute	Ron Jeffers – Cincinnati, OH @

1993
Merle Butler – Oklahoma City, OK #@	Lois Hollingsworth – Terre Haute
Jim Farrell – Oklahoma City, OK @*	Rex McKenney – Shelbyville *
Joyce Gumbrell – Evansville

1994
Bob Winchell – Evansville	Karen Weisman – Oklahoma City, OK @
Bob Savoie – Easton, MD @ #

1995
Ralph DeMeyer – South Bend	Wally McCormick – Portage
Don Kleiser – Jasper	Tony Walsh – Memphis, TN @

1996
Robert Hansen – LaPorte	Al Kavanaugh – Montgomery
Kay Bobeck – Elkhart	Lee Kavanaugh – Montgomery
Sue Becher – Elkhart	John Anderson* – Anderson
Mary Hums – Elkhart	Michelle Venturella – Bloomington @
Leon Zachary – Alexandria	Henry Pollard – Richmond, VA @

1997
Kathleen (Goetz) Jagla – South Bend	Bob Bishop – LaPorte *
Shirley Hallman – Huntington	John Benton – Terre Haute
Gary West – Evansville	Mikel Ropp – Elkhart

1998
Arch Blair – Terre Haute	Tom Harbert – Kokomo
Dewey Boylls – Evansville	Bob Kitchell – Galveston
John Byers – South Bend	Jerry Krasek – Clinton
Richard Caldwell - Zionsville	Sam Marshall – Muncie
Arlene Clatfelter - Terre Haute	Sam Pegg – Peru *
Fred Douglas – Kokomo	Bill Plummer – Oklahoma City, OK @
Marty Dunbar – Terre Haute	Don Trout, Sponsor – Lafayette
Rick Eads – Anderson

1999
Ron Radigonda – Oklahoma City, OK @	Jerry Peters – Peru
Edna Isles – Terre Haute	Clarence Bowen – Evansville
Eileen Murdock – Terre Haute	Delbert Parham – Kokomo
John Barlow – Mitchell	Don Groves – Evansville
Tim Glassburn – Kokomo	Jerry Hanson – Midland, MI @

2000
Fran Wright – Terre Haute	Tom Turpen – Evansville
Brenda Whitesell – Terre Haute	Bill Calkin – Evansville
Ken McCollum – Bloomington	Nels Oneal – West Lafayette
George Kitzinger – Evansville	Billy Peterson – St. Paul, MN @
Wilmer Whittmer – Evansville

2001
Don Asher – Indianapolis	Mike Fleet – Anderson
Jim Blair – Brownsburg	Harry Ochs – Anderson
David Dale – Indianapolis	Steve Orner – Indianapolis
Larry Douglas – Anderson	Pat Fleming – Grinnell, IA @

2002
Melanie Baublit – Kokomo	Jim Stonebraker – Indianapolis
Jerry Blackwell – Bloomington	Fred Shipley – Brownsburg
Lea Smith – Avon*	Brian Ellinghausen – Sunman*
Roy Scott – Frankfort	Jim Craig – Amherst, NY @
Janet Chandler – Indianapolis	Mike DeLeo – AuGres, MI @
Mike Andrews – Clinton

2003
Lowell Baker - Mooresville	Bob Baur - Shelbyville
Jerry Fick - Cincinnati, OH	Don Kanouse - St. Paul
Ken "Red" Smith - Lafayette	Steve Yancey - Brownsburg

2004
Kenneth Hattery - Peru	Larry G. Corps - Bedford
Marvin T. Allison - Valparaiso	David Bear - Indianapolis
George Bolin - South Bend	Ed Roesler - Indianapolis
Craig Cress - Edmond, OK @	Bernie Profato - Niles, OH @

2005
Jeff Babb - Daleville	Julie Johnson - Alexandria
Frank Knox - Lafayette	John Mutz - Mooresville
Phyllis Myers - Terre Haute	Penny Rhoda - Bedford
John Wirtz - Indianapolis

2006
Craig Cress - Oklahoma City, OK	Wilbur Slabaugh - Kokomo
Joe Krathwohl - Logansport	Rhonda Haas VanWinkle - Bretzville
Howie Johnson - Terre Haute	Jim Murphy - Bloomington
Andy Dooley - Piedmont, VA @	Steve Monson - Riverside, CA @
Jack Mowatt - Washington, DC @	Joey Rich - Springfield, MO @
Kevin Ryan - Denver, NC @

* Deceased @ Honorary Member # Also a member of the ASA National Hall of Fame

Indianapolis Chapter

Dick “Magoo” Aldrich	Clyde Gaskins*	Melvin “Mel” Nordholt
Walter Alestock	Richard H. Gerrish	Alvin “Ab” Nuttall*
Lloyd Allanson	Alecia Gilles	Jim O’Connor
Jack Allen	Aaron Goldsmith	Steve “O” Orner
Rosie Allen	Bob “Tank” Goodwin	Paul Pallikan*
Tom Ancelet	Leonard Goodwin	Sonny Pasley
Michael L. Andrew	Peggy Gordon	V.L. Pennington
Don Asher	John J. Gorman	Mel Pfeiffer
Bucky Autry	Kathryn E. Gorman	Mike Phelps
Daniel R. Baker	Don Hancock	Bill Pickett
Jack Baker	John Hanrahan*	Jerry L. Piper
Lowell Baker	Shelia Mae Haskins	Herb Price
Norma Jean Giroud Baker	William Hatcher	Robert Quillen*
Duard “Tiny” Ballard	George Hawkins	Ray Raker
Frank Bardash*	Kitty Hawthorne	Clem Randolph
David Bear	Virginia J. Haynes	Fred “Rusty” Ratcliff*
Jim Bemis	Ken Heatherly	Herb Ratcliffe
Hilda Benberry	Larry Heck	Clifton R. Read*
George Berkowitz	Herb Henry	Lenny Reed
Bob Bernath	Vern Hensley	Willard Reed*
Trudy Bernath	Clark Hicks	Roger Reese
Mike Bisesi, Jr.	Bob Hildebrand	Pete Roberts
Mike Bisesi, Sr.	Susan Hiner	Ed Roessler
George K. Blackburn, Jr.	Bill Hobson	David Rohn
James Blair	Mark Hogan	Kathy Rosemeyer
Herman Bland	Gene A. Hooper	Jack Roudebush
“Smokey” Joe Blasingame*	Jo Ann Hooper	Jim Roudebush
Brian “Rabbit” Boyer	Paul Hoppe	Janet J. Rumsey
Diane Bremermann	Lorenzo Humphrey	Harry Russell
Eugene “Newt” Briner*	Ron “Ghost” Huser	Rudy Rutan*
Pete Brouse*	Steve Imlay	Gerald Sare
Claude S. Brown, Jr.	Mike Jeffers	Judy Schneider