The MVP of the 1965 College World Series, Bando helped lead Arizona State to Omaha in both of his seasons in Tempe. He anchored an offense that collected 419 RBIs en route to a then-national record 54 wins and a national championship in the '65 season. The Sun Devils stormed through the '65 College World Series behind Bando, who scored the game-winning run against Ohio State in the national championship game after reaching base on a triple. Bando hit .319 during his Sun Devil career, including .364 in 1964, and amassed 130 hits, 99 runs scored and 92 RBIs in two years at ASU. A two-time All-WAC performer, in 2010 he was named to the College World Series Legends Team. Bando was inducted into the ASU Hall of Fame in '75, and his number was retired by the Sun Devils in '96.
2013 College Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees
Seven new members were inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame on June 29, 2013, in the annual celebration of the greatest players in past and present college baseball.
College Baseball's Night of Champions in Lubbock, Texas, honored these men for their addition to the Hall of Fame: Arizona State third baseman Sal Bando; Oklahoma State pitcher Tom Borland; Grambling State second baseman Ralph Garr; University of Tampa first baseman Tino Martinez; Marietta College coach Don Schaly; USC shortstop Roy Smalley; and Colby College, Maine and Husson College coach John Winkin.
Tom Borland was a stalwart pitcher on Oklahoma State's team from 1953 through 1955. The left-hander posted a sparkling 19-2 record during his career, which included a perfect 11-0 mark in 1955.
Borland helped lead the Cowboys to the College World Series in both 1954 and 1955. He posted an 8-2 record with a 2.50 earned run average in 1954 while striking out 100 batters in 104 innings pitched.
Oklahoma State went 18-11 that season and followed that up with a 27-3 record in the 1955 campaign.
Borland was a dominating force for the Cowboys in 1955, with a 2.13 ERA and an impressive 143 strikeouts in 117 2/3 innings.
He was named a first-team All-American according to the American Baseball Coaches' Association, while leading the Cowboys to the College World Series.
At the CWS, Borland capped his collegiate career by being named the Most Valuable Player and was also on the All-Tournament team.
As a freshman in 1964, Garr made only 21 plate appearances for the Tigers. However, in his final three years in school, Ralph Garr was the team's leading hitter each year. His .582 average in 1967 not only led Grambling by a wide margin, but also topped the entire NAIA and NCAA Division II. Going into the 2013 college season, Garr still holds the Division II record for highest batting average in a season. He also set a record with his 11 triples that year.
During Ralph Garr's career at Grambling, winning baseball was a foregone conclusion. It's hard to imagine any one college player having taken part in a more successful four-year span than Garr did at Grambling with its 103-11 record between the years of 1964-1967. In 1967, Grambling won 33 of its 34 regular season games and finished third at the annual NAIA baseball championship. For his career, Garr had an impressive batting average of .418.
Ralph Garr culminated a great career at Grambling with his selection as a first team NAIA All-American in 1967 and his selection by the Atlanta Braves in the third round of that year's MLB First-Year Player Draft (52nd overall).
Martinez spent three years playing for the University of Tampa Spartans. He was the 1988 NCAA Division II National Player of the Year, a three-time All-American (third-team in '86, second-team in '87, first-team in '88), a three-time All-Region Performer, a three-time member of the NCAA South Regional All-Tournament Team, the NCAA South Regional Tournament MVP ('86), an Academic All-American and a fixture in the Spartans record books. Martinez still holds Spartans records for career home runs (54), career batting average (.399), career slugging percentage (.736), single-season batting average (.452) and single-season slugging percentage (.957).
In 1988, Martinez led the 1988 United States baseball team to the gold medal in the Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He was named MVP of the World Amateur Championships in Parma, Italy, hitting .413 with four home runs and 18 RBIs, and was named first baseman on The Sporting News College All-America Team. That year, he also was a finalist for the Golden Spikes Award, presented to the country's best amateur player.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Named Collegiate Baseball Magazine's Division III Coach of the Century
Record: 1,442-329
- Best winning percentage of any college coach at any level (.812) with more than 500 wins
- Named National Coach of the Year four times
- Coaches his teams to three National Championships and seven runner-up finishes
For 40 years, from 1964 to 2003, Don Schaly was the baseball coach at Marietta College in Ohio.
The 1959 graduate of Marietta College played baseball and football for the Pioneers. He returned to his alma mater in 1964 and never left, guiding his teams to three NCAA Division III national championships and seven national runner-up finishes. He won 18 Mideast Regional Championships and 27 Ohio Athletic Conference championships.
The coach won numerous coaching awards during his career. He was inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1995. Schaly was named the National Coach of the Year four times (1975, 1981, 1983 and 1986), and in 2000 Collegiate Baseball named him the Division III Coach of the Century. Schaly was also awarded the OAC's Coach of the Year 17 times and the Mideast Regional Coach of the Year 21 times.
Schaly's final record at Marietta is 1,442-329, but Schaly's role in the Marietta College athletics department extended far beyond the duties of head baseball coach. He was an assistant football coach for 17 years and served as an assistant athletic director for more than 20 years. Schaly also played a primary role in the formation of the Marietta College Athletic Hall of Fame, into which he was inducted in 2004.
Schaly was the first person in Marietta College history to have his jersey retired. The college also renamed the main entrance of Ban Johnson Arena the Schaly Lobby, in his honor. In 2006, Pioneer Park was renamed Don Schaly Stadium, in his honor.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Earned first-team All-America honors as a shortstop by the American Baseball Coaches' Association and The Sporting News in 1973.
- Batted .338 in 1973, second-best on the team. Also had five home runs and 29 RBIs.
- Earned All-College World Series honors in 1973.
- Earned All-Region honors in 1973.
- Starting shortstop on the 1972 and 1973 teams, twice winning national titles.
- Twice named first-team All-Pac 8. ? During his two-year Trojan career, batted .297 with 68 RBIs, 101 hits and 10 home runs.
- Was drafted four times by MLB teams between 1970 and 1973 without signing. Smalley signed in the January 1974 amateur draft when he was the No. 1 overall pick.
- In 1996, was named shortstop on College World Series 1970s All-Decade Team.
- Inducted into the USC Athletics Hall of Fame in 2007.
- 32 years as a collegiate umpire
- 21 NCAA Division I Regionals
- Eight NCAA Division I World Series
- Numerous NCAA Division II, III, & NAIA Regionals
- Numerous NCAA Junior College Regionals
- 1979 Major League Umpire (During Strike)
- 1984 Olympic Games Umpire
- International Baseball (USA vs. Japan, USA vs. Mexico, USA vs. Canada)
- Two terms as NCAA National Evaluator
- Served as NCAA Baseball Umpire Mechanics Committee
- 1990-present: Coordinator of Umpires - Big West Conference
- 1982-98: Founder/Commissioner of Southern California Collegiate Umpires Association
- Three years as Umpire Coordinator for the Western Athletic Conference (WAC)
- Five years as Umpire Coordinator for the Pac-10 Southern Division
- Eight years as United States Baseball Federation Regional Representative/Umpire Evaluator
Coached baseball at Maine for 22 years and compiled a record of 642-430-3. He took six teams to the College World Series and his squad finished third in the nation twice. He led Maine to 11 NCAA regional tournaments. Winkin was named National Coach of the Year in 1965, New England Division I Coach of the Year in 1975 and Northeast Region Division I Coach of the Year in 1976, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986 and 1991. He has been elected to the Maine Baseball, ABCA, Maine Sports and University of Maine Halls of Fame. Winkin also received the Lefty Gomez Award for contribution to baseball and the ECAC Distinguished Achievement Award. Winkin came out of retirement to coach baseball at Husson College in Bangor, Maine, and on March 12, 2006, he recorded his 1,000th career coaching victory.