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Name: Mark Baltus
Type: Player
One of the best defensive 3rd basemen of the 80's and 90's combined with hitting power and speed.Constantly in the top 10 in the home run derby. Has played on various championship teams, Yano's,Quality Buick,Doc's,Lakeway. Played into his 50's about 25yrs.
Name: Bill Berndt
Type: Player
bill has played softball since 1970, minitemen,teamsters293,new york life out of akron,b&b wrecking, played first base, right filed,DH has played in the worlds a few times. known has one of the hardest hitters in the city.
Name: Ed Cercek
Type: Player
Lally Fielder - Bedford Majors 1980-1984. Multiple Cleveland area tournament winner and Bedford Majors Champs. Helped LF attain Plain Dealer ranking of 2nd best team in Cleveland area in 1984, second only to Teamsters 293.
Excellent power, leading or runner-up to Tony Foschia for most home runs each season. Very fast for a 260+ pounder....played ALL positions very well. Provided extreme power to any team he played for.
Also played with General Tire factory teams that were Akron Big 4 Champs multiple times as well as USSSA C National Champs in Bowie Maryland.
Played in Bedford Majors for 3 years prior to LF. Also played in Maple Heights AAAA 1982-84.
Played multiple years in Akron area as well.
Name: Gary Vidovic
Type: Player
Triple crown winner in maple hts. premier3 straight years 1991-94 bedford glens triple crown winner 3 straight years 1988-90 played with medina auto body, towhig,the most complete player of the late 80's ask anyone who knows softball
Name: Larry Moorman
Type: Sponsor
Sponsored Men's & Women's teams for over three decades. Both Men's & Women's teams qualified for National Tournaments. Teams participated in Brooklyn, Cleveland, Parma and Strongsville. The name Preferred Picks became recognized on Cleveland's west side as premier softtball teams, playing a competitve brand of softball and being dressed like the Pros thanks to their great backer.
Name: George Hull
Type: Player
George Hull was on of the best Fast Pitch Hitters and Catchers to play on the Cleveland Sandlots. National Tournament participant on a regular basis he was one of the areas top power hitters. He later played Slow Pitch and his throwing arm even in the twilight of his career was often compared to a cannon.
Name: Jim Vojtech - TPV Metals
Type: Sponsor
Jim Vojtech sponsored Men's teams in Brecksville top level of competition for over three decades. Later he sponsored a youth girls traveling team that also went on to compete at the National level. His TPV Metals teams were a weekly particpants in area tournaments and well respected throughout the Clevland area sandlots as being a class team.
Name: Perry Perron
Type: Player
Perry is 45 years old. Bats left-throws right. Starred at shortstop and at pitcher. Overall batting average is usually .650 and above. Most copetitive player i know.
First team All Tournament ASA National Class C in 2007 Montgomery, Alabama Playing for Meager Masonry Team which finished 3rd. All tournament selection again in 2005 in Valdosta, Ga. ASA C Nationals, finishing 2nd that year. Led team 3 times to win ASA Cleveland Metro. Twice with Meager-2005 and 2007. Won again with with Meager/Boys in 2004. Led team to at least 30 tournament championships while playing for Twohig, Meager/Boys, Meager Masonry, Kellys Welding, Xcalibur Autobody and Hubbs Softball over the last 12 years. This year , 2011, won 4 and placed 2nd out of 8 tournaments played all at the C level. This is only a start. Perry also has won titles in BSA and 35+ Softball. Definitely is among the top all time Cleveland area players and I have followed Cleveland softball for 47 + years and have seen most of the players in the Hall of Fame when they played.
Name: Ray Palermo
Type: Other
Name: Ray Palermo
Type: Coach
Coached(& managed)30+yrs.for several top notch teams - notably Schultz Investments, Commonweath Lumber, Mickey O'Connors, Roulette Pontiac-Honda, & Pepco making his mark mainly in Lake County in the Eastlake & Freeway leagues. Was an integral part of numerous league champions as well as many tournament title teams - notably ASA Metro Cleveland champion Roulette in 1982 & Pepco in 1993 (with Pepco going on to become National Champs). He was the perfect example of a coach i.e. not about him - always about the team. Having him as my 1st base coach for over 17 yrs. (retiring as a National Champion in 1993), I can vouch for his all-around character on the field as well as being a trusted friend.
Name: mike zdanowicz
Type: Player
mike played for over 20 years, most of those seasons hitting lead off w/ tradewinds lounge and he was an integral part of the championships that those teams won in the 80s and 90s. He was a very versatile player able to play every position w/ out any drop off in production either at the plate or in the field and in fact was selected to numerous all star teams at different positions thru out the years. He had a very accurate and strong arm in addition to also possesing outstanding speed on the basepaths and he also had an instinct for the game that could not be taught. To my knowledge mike played for 5 Hall of Fame coaches during his career,sam nader,arle lumadue,bobby miller,gordy dzomba, and dave moushey and i am sure much of their success is attributable to his being in their lineups. He was a fiery competitor who refused to lose and he was also a great teamate. Mike also umpired for 10 years after he stopped playing
Name: mike zdanowicz
Type: Player
remember playing against mike and later with him. he was the prototypical leadoff hitter, very fast and hit to all fields. mike definately belongs in the hall based on the qualifications on the website. he exceled in every facet of the game the exception being power and to this day still has the strongest most accurate arm i have ever seen and i have been involved in the game for over 30 years.
Name: jack murphy
Type: Sponsor
has backed the tradewinds lounge for over 25 years in various euclid divisions. great supporter of local teams thru the decades and has had many outstanding players on his teams winning multiple euclid softball titles.
Name: Jerry Sulecki
Type: Player,Umpire,
Jerry Sulecki was involved in softball for 50 years from 1951 to 2000 – as a player and as an umpire – in Cuyahoga, Lake, and Geauga Counties.
After playing in the Cleveland sandlot leagues, he started playing fast-pitch softball in 1951 when he was sixteen. Eventually he played in the Euclid Major League - primarily for the East Cleveland Merchants, Tube Form, Inc., and Erie Auto Parts teams – and these three teams won the league championship – all with Sam Nader as the Manager.
All three teams played for the Cleveland City Championship in an era when every Greater Cleveland ASA team was eligible to participate. This resulted in as many as 250 plus teams playing in one division on multiple fields across Cuyahoga and Lake Counties with a one-and-out format.
He played right field for the East Cleveland Merchants team that lost in the 1958 City Final 1-0 at Elks Field. He played center field for Tube Form Inc. in 1960 when that team won the ASA fast-pitch City Championship. In 1962, he was the center-fielder for the Erie Auto Parts team which lost the City Final 3-2.
He began umpiring in 1972 as an ASA umpire, working countless youth and adult games for almost 30 seasons. When the USSSA was formed, he worked both ASA and USSSA. Before his career was over he also worked as an NSA and ISA umpire.
He worked many ASA and USSSA City Tournament games and many semi-final and finals games as well as umpiring in the Professional Softball League at Daniels Park, Bruce Yee Field and at Softball World.
Jerry also served as Vice President of the Lake County Umpires Association as well as being the Lake County USSSA Assistant Umpire-in-Chief before he retired in 2001.
He is presently in the Cleveland Football Officials Hall of Fame and the Ohio High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame.
Name: Tom Maglish
Type: Player
I would like to nominate Tom Maglish to the Cleveland softball hof. I played with Tom in the Bedford and Parma Classic Leauge in the 70's. I feel Tom was one of the best players of that time. He played outfield, hit for high average and had a rifle arm. We played together on Holiday lounge. I feel Tom Maglish deserves and earned his way to be a member of the Cleveland Softball Hall Of Fame. Thank you! Dan chorba
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