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Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...

 Sports Hall of Fame (PSHF) is a nonprofit organization established in 1962. It is the only community-based hall of fame

Hall of Fame

A hall of fame, wall of fame, walk of fame, walk of stars or avenue of stars is a type of attraction established for any field of endeavor to honor individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field...

 in the United States. At its annual convention and induction ceremonial, the PSHF inducts athletes, coaches, administrators, and those involved in sports medicine

Sports medicine

Sports medicine is a branch of medicine that deals with physical fitness, treatment and prevention of injuries related to sports and exercise...

 and the sports media

Sports journalism

Sports journalism is a form of journalism that reports on sports topics and events.While the sports department within some newspapers has been mockingly called the toy department, because sports journalists do not concern themselves with the 'serious' topics covered by the news desk, sports...

, whose athletic achievements "have brought lasting fame and recognition to the State of Pennsylvania". At the induction ceremony, ten living and two deceased inductees are honored, with the presentation of a Gold Inductee medallion with pendant. The convention and ceremonial are rotated among the chapters of the Central, Eastern, Northern, and Western regions.
The first induction ceremony was in 1963.

The first Ceremonial Dinner was held in 1963, in Philadelphia; the second was in 1964, at the Pittsburgh William Penn Hotel.

The Western Region will host the 50th Anniversary Dinner on November 11, 2012, at the Sheraton Four Points in Warrendale.

Regional chapters

The PSHF has twenty-eight chartered chapters, which serve over 300 communities in the state. The chapters are divided into four regions: Central, Eastern, Northern, and Western.

The Central Region's nine chapters are: Berks County, Capital, Central, Clinton County, Huntingdon, South Central, Susquehanna Valley, West Branch, and West Shore.

The Eastern Region's six chapters are: Bucks County, City All Star (Philadelphia), Delaware County, Montgomery County, Summit, and Tri-County.

The Northern Region's seven chapters are: Allen Rogowicz, Bernie Romanoski, Carbon County, Ed Romance, Luzerne-John Popple, Northeastern, and Northern Anthracite.

The Western Region's six chapters are: East Boros, Erie County, Fayette County, Mid Mon Valley, Washington-Greene County, and Western.

Nominations

Each year, each chapter may nominate the names of no more than three living persons and two deceased persons, for consideration as possible inductees.

Induction ceremonies

The 2011 induction ceremony will be hosted by the Bucks County Chapter on Saturday, October 22, 2011, at the Radisson Hotel Philadelphia Northeast.

Baseball

See footnote

• 1963: John Lobert
• 1963: Connie Mack
  Connie Mack
  Connie Mack may refer to:* Connie Mack I , Hall of Fame baseball manager, player, owner* Connie Mack III , U.S. Representative , U.S. Senator from Florida * Connie Mack IV , U.S...
  
  
• 1963: Stan Musial
  Stan Musial
  Stanley Frank "Stan" Musial is a retired professional baseball player who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals . Nicknamed "Stan the Man", Musial was a record 24-time All-Star selection , and is widely considered to be one of the greatest hitters in baseball...
  
  
• 1963: Jim Thorpe
  Jim Thorpe
  Jacobus Franciscus "Jim" Thorpe * Gerasimo and Whiteley. pg. 28 * americaslibrary.gov, accessed April 23, 2007. was an American athlete of mixed ancestry...
  
  
• 1963: Harold ("Pie") Traynor

• 1965: Roy Campanella
  Roy Campanella
  Roy Campanella , nicknamed "Campy", was an American baseball player, primarily at the position of catcher, in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball...
  
  
• 1965: Jimmy Dykes
  Jimmy Dykes
  James Joseph Dykes was an American third and second baseman, manager and coach in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Athletics and Chicago White Sox from 1918 to 1939...
  
  
• 1965: Jimmy Foxx
• 1965: Robert (Lefty) Grove
  Lefty Grove
  Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove was a professional baseball pitcher. After having success in the minor leagues during the early 1920s, Grove became a star in Major League Baseball with the American League's Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox, winning 300 games in his 17-year MLB career...
  
  
• 1965: Christy Mathewson
  Christy Mathewson
  Christopher "Christy" Mathewson , nicknamed "Big Six", "The Christian Gentleman", or "Matty", was an American Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher. He played his entire career in what is known as the dead-ball era...
  
  

• 1966: Lester Bell
• 1966: Charles Gelbert
• 1966: Robin Roberts

• 1967: Charles Kelchner

• 1968: George (Whitey) Kurowski
  Whitey Kurowski
  George John Kurowski was a third baseman in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the St. Louis Cardinals . Kurowski batted and threw right-handed. He debuted on September 23, 1941, and played his final game on October 1, 1949...
  
  
• 1968: Bill McKechnie
  Bill McKechnie
  William Boyd McKechnie was an American third baseman, manager and coach in Major League Baseball. He was the first manager to win World Series titles with two different teams , and remains one of only two managers to win pennants with three teams, also capturing the National League title in 1928...
  
  
• 1968: Curt Simmons
  Curt Simmons
  Curtis Thomas "Curt" Simmons is a former left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1947–50 and 1952-67. With right-hander Robin Roberts, a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, Simmons was one of the twin anchors of the starting rotation of the "Whiz Kids", the Philadelphia Phillies' ...
  
  
• 1968: Lloyd Waner
  Lloyd Waner
  Lloyd James Waner , nicknamed "Little Poison", was a Major League Baseball center fielder. His small stature at 5'9" and 132 lb made him one of the smallest players of his era. Along with his brother, Paul Waner, he anchored the Pittsburgh Pirates outfield throughout the 1920s and 1930s...
  
  

• 1969: Robert Friend
  Robert Friend
  Robert Friend was an American-born poet and translator. After moving to Israel, he became a professor of English literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.-Biography:...
  
  
• 1969: Dick Groat
  Dick Groat
  Richard Morrow Groat is a former two-sport athlete best known as a shortstop in Major League Baseball. He played for four National League teams, mainly the Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals, and was named the league's Most Valuable Player in after winning the batting title with a .325...
  
  

• 1970: Elroy Face
• 1970: Ralph Kiner
  Ralph Kiner
  Ralph McPherran Kiner is an American former Major League Baseball player and has been an announcer for the New York Mets since the team's inception. Though injuries forced his retirement from active play after 10 seasons, Kiner's tremendous slugging outpaced nearly all of his National League...
  
  
• 1970: Josh Gibson
  Josh Gibson
  Joshua Gibson was an American catcher in baseball's Negro leagues. He played for the Homestead Grays from 1930 to 1931, moved to the Pittsburgh Crawfords from 1932 to 1936, and returned to the Grays from 1937 to 1939 and 1942 to 1946...
  
  

• 1971: Stanley Coveleskie
• 1971: William Cox
• 1971: Nellie Fox
  Nellie Fox
  Jacob Nelson Fox was a Major League Baseball second baseman for the Chicago White Sox. Fox was born in St. Thomas Township, Pennsylvania. He was selected as the MVP of the American League in...
  
  
• 1971: Herb Pennock
  Herb Pennock
  Herbert Jefferis Pennock was a left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher best known for his time spent with the star-studded New York Yankee teams of the mid to late 1920s and early 1930s. Pennock won two World Series championships with the Red Sox and then four World Series championships with the...
  
  
• 1971: William Walters
• 1971: Lewis Wilson
  Lewis Wilson
  Lewis G. Wilson was an American actor from New York City who was most famous for being the first actor to play the DC Comics character Batman in live action ....
  
  

• 1972: Richie Ashburn
  Richie Ashburn
  Don Richard "Richie" Ashburn , also known by the nicknames, "Putt-Putt", "The Tilden Flash", and "Whitey" due to his light-blond hair, was an American center fielder in Major League Baseball. He was born in Tilden, Nebraska...
  
  
• 1972: Frank Gustine
• 1972: Eddie Plank
  Eddie Plank
  Edward Stewart Plank , nicknamed "Gettysburg Eddie", was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He is the first left-handed pitcher to win 200 games and then 300 games, and now ranks third in all-time wins among left-handers with 326 career victories and first all-time in career shutouts by a...
  
  
• 1972: Ken Raffensberger
  Ken Raffensberger
  Kenneth David Raffensberger was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. From 1939 through 1954, he played for the St. Louis Cardinals , Chicago Cubs , Philadelphia Phillies , and Cincinnati Reds/Redlegs . Raffensberger batted right-handed and threw left-handed...
  
  

• 1973: Roberto Clemente
  Roberto Clemente
  Roberto Clemente Walker was a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball right fielder. He was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, the youngest of seven children. Clemente played his entire 18-year baseball career with the Pittsburgh Pirates . He was awarded the National League's Most Valuable Player Award in...
  
  
• 1973: Bing Miller
  Bing Miller
  Edmund John "Bing" Miller was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and coach. Born in Vinton, Iowa, he was 6' tall and weighed 185 pounds and hit and threw right-handed...
  
  
• 1973: John Ogden
  Jack Ogden
  John Mahlon Ogden , was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played five seasons in the majors, between and , for the Cincinnati Reds, New York Giants, and St. Louis Browns.Ogden attended Swarthmore College, where he played baseball and was a member of Phi Psi...
  
  
• 1973: Truett (Rip) Sewell
  Rip Sewell
  Truett Banks "Rip" Sewell was a right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played 13 years in the major leagues with the Detroit Tigers and Pittsburgh Pirates...
  
  

• 1975: Eddie Collins Sr
• 1975: Del Ennis
  Del Ennis
  Delmer Ennis was an American left and right fielder in Major League Baseball who played most of his career for the Philadelphia Phillies. From 1949 to 1957, Ennis accumulated more runs batted in than anyone besides Stan Musial and was 8th in the National League in home runs...
  
  
• 1975: William Myers
  William Myers
  William Gerry Myers III is an American lawyer and former nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.-Background:...
  
  
• 1975: Cum Posey
• 1975: Tommy Richardson

• 1976: Frederick Frankhouse
• 1976: Charles Fullis
• 1976: Carl Furillo
  Carl Furillo
  Carl Anthony Furillo , nicknamed "The Reading Rifle" and "Skoonj," was a right fielder in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers...
  
  

• 1977: Theodore Page
• 1977: James T Sheckard
• 1977: William H Sherdel
• 1977: Vic Wertz
  Vic Wertz
  Victor Woodrow Wertz was a Major League Baseball first baseman and outfielder. He had a seventeen year career from 1947 to 1963. He was signed as a free agent by the Detroit Tigers in 1942 and played for the Tigers, St...
  
  

• 1978: Danny Murtaugh
  Danny Murtaugh
  Daniel Edward Murtaugh was an American second baseman, manager, front-office executive and coach in Major League Baseball best known for his 29-year association with the Pittsburgh Pirates as a player and manager...
  
  
• 1978: Bobby Shantz
  Bobby Shantz
  Robert Clayton Shantz was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics , Kansas City Athletics , New York Yankees , Pittsburgh Pirates , Houston Colt .45's , St...
  
  
• 1978: Pete Suder
  Pete Suder
  Peter Suder , nicknamed "Pecky," was an American professional baseball player, a utility infielder for the Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics . He was born in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania....
  
  
• 1978: James (Mickey) Vernon
  Mickey Vernon
  James Barton "Mickey" Vernon was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Washington Senators for the majority of his career, as well as four other teams: the Cleveland Indians , Boston Red Sox , Milwaukee Braves and Pittsburgh Pirates...
  
  

• 1979: Joe Boley
  Joe Boley
  John Peter "Joe" Boley , was a shortstop in Major League Baseball from 1927 to 1932...
  
  
• 1979: Gerald Lynch
• 1979: Sam McDowell
  Sam McDowell
  Samuel Edward Thomas McDowell , is a former professional baseball pitcher. He played fifteen seasons in Major League Baseball, with the first 11 coming for the Cleveland Indians before a 1971 trade to the San Francisco Giants, followed by stints with the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates...
  
  
• 1979: Robert Purkey
• 1979: Charles T (Broadway) Wagner

• 1980: George Earnshaw
  George Earnshaw
  George "Moose" Earnshaw was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He played in parts of nine seasons with the Philadelphia Athletics, Chicago White Sox, Brooklyn Dodgers, and St. Louis Cardinals. He was the American League wins leader in 1929 with the A's...
  
  
• 1980: Dick Gernert
  Dick Gernert
  Richard Edward Gernert was a first baseman and outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox , Chicago Cubs , Detroit Tigers , Cincinnati Reds and Houston Colt .45's . He threw and batted right-handed...
  
  
• 1980: Don R Wert

• 1981: Howard Bedell
• 1981: Randall Gumpert
• 1981: Ralph B Melix
• 1981: George W Staller

• 1982: James B Deshong

• 1983: Joseph Holden
• 1983: Dave Ricketts
  Dave Ricketts
  David William Ricketts was an American catcher and coach in Major League Baseball who played parts of six seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates. Ricketts was a reserve catcher on the 1967 World Series champion Cardinals and their 1968 pennant winners...
  
  
• 1983: Jimmy Ripple
  Jimmy Ripple
  James Albert "Jimmy" Ripple was an American professional baseball player who played as an outfielder in Major League Baseball for seven seasons from 1936 to 1943. He played for the New York Giants , the Brooklyn Dodgers , the Cincinnati Reds , and the Philadelphia Athletics...
  
  

• 1984: James Clarkson
• 1984: Thomas Ferrick
• 1984: Elmer Valo
  Elmer Valo
  Elmer William Valo , born Imrich Valo, was a Slovak-American right fielder, coach and scout in Major League Baseball, making his debut on September 22,...
  
  

• 1985: Gordon W Hunter
• 1985: Bill Mazeroski
  Bill Mazeroski
  William Stanley Mazeroski , nicknamed "Maz", is a former Major League Baseball player who spent his entire career with the Pittsburgh Pirates...
  
  

• 1986: John P Quinn
• 1986: Eddie Sawyer
  Eddie Sawyer
  Edwin Milby Sawyer was an American manager and scout in Major League Baseball. As a manager, he led the 1950 Philadelphia Phillies — the "Whiz Kids", as the youthful club was known — to the second National League championship in team history.-A scholar-athlete:Born in Westerly, Rhode Island,...
  
  

• 1987: Al Brancato
  Al Brancato
  Albert Brancato was a shortstop and third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Athletics from 1939–1941 and 1945. His career in the Majors was interrupted by military service in the US Navy during the second World War...
  
  

• 1988: Stan Lopata
  Stan Lopata
  Stanley Edward Lopata was an American professional baseball player. Lopata played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for parts of 13 seasons with the Philadelphia Phillies and Milwaukee Braves...
  
  
• 1988: Art Mahaffey
  Art Mahaffey
  Arthur Mahaffey, Jr. is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Phillies and St. Louis Cardinals . He batted and threw right-handed...
  
  

• 1989: Albert (Sparky) Lyle
  Sparky Lyle
  Albert Walter "Sparky" Lyle is an American former left-handed relief pitcher who spent sixteen seasons in Major League Baseball . He was a closer from 1969 to 1977, first for the Boston Red Sox and then the New York Yankees. A three-time All-Star, he won the American League Cy Young Award in 1977...
  
  

• 1990: Earl (Sparky) Adams
  Sparky Adams
  Earl John "Sparky" Adams was a professional Major League Baseball player who played with the Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, and Cincinnati Reds.-Chicago Cubs:...
  
  
• 1990: Steve Blass
  Steve Blass
  Stephen Robert "Steve" Blass is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher and a current broadcast announcer for the Pittsburgh Pirates.-Playing career:Blass was born in Canaan, Connecticut...
  
  

• 1991: Eugene Benson
  Eugene Benson
  Eugene Benson is a professor of English and a prolific novelist, playwright and librettist.-Life:Born in Northern Ireland, Benson obtained a masters degree from the University of Western Ontario and his Ph.D from the University of Toronto....
  
  

• 1992: Gene Garber
  Gene Garber
  Henry Eugene Garber is a former sidearm relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. He was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 20th round of the amateur draft, and pitched for the Pirates, the Kansas City Royals, the Philadelphia Phillies, and the Atlanta Braves.Upon his retirement in , his...
  
  
• 1992: John E Murphy
• 1992: Al (Scoop) Oliver

• 1993: Stephen F O'Neil
• 1993: Chuck Tanner
  Chuck Tanner
  Charles William "Chuck" Tanner was a left fielder and manager in Major League Baseball. He was known for his unwavering confidence and infectious optimism. He managed the Pittsburgh Pirates to a World Series championship in 1979...
  
  

• 1994: Nelson (Nellie) Briles
  Nelson Briles
  Nelson Kelley "Nellie" Briles was a pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the St. Louis Cardinals , Pittsburgh Pirates , Kansas City Royals , Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles...
  
  

• 1995: Robert A McDonnell

• 1996: Richard (Dick) Allen
  Dick Allen
  Richard Anthony Allen is a former Major League Baseball player and R&B singer. He played first and third base and outfield in Major League Baseball and ranked among his sport's top offensive producers of the 1960s and early 1970s...
  
  
• 1996: Nathan (Ed) Ott
  Ed Ott
  Nathan Edward Ott is a former professional baseball catcher and coach who played in the Major Leagues for the Pittsburgh Pirates and California Angels between 1974 and 1981...
  
  
• 1996: Manuel (Manny) Sanguillen
  Manny Sanguillen
  Manuel De Jesus Sanguillen Magan, better known as Manny Sanguillen or "Sangy" , is a former professional baseball player who was a catcher in the Major Leagues. He was named to the All-Star team three times, in , , and . He played primarily for the Pittsburgh Pirates, but also for the Oakland...
  
  

• 1997: Thomas M Herr
• 1997: Richard Tracewski

• 2000: Hugh Jennings
• 2000: Kent Tekulve
  Kent Tekulve
  Kenton Charles Tekulve is a former Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher. During a 16-year baseball career, he pitched for three different teams, but spent most of his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates...
  
  
• 2000: Bill Virdon
  Bill Virdon
  William Charles Virdon is a former outfielder, manager and coach in Major League Baseball. A premier defensive outfielder during his playing days as a center fielder for the St...
  
  

• 2002: Jean Marlow
• 2002: Tom O'Malley
  Tom O'Malley
  ----Thomas Patrick O'Malley is a former Major League baseball player born in Orange, New Jersey, and raised in Montoursville, Pennsylvania in the United States. He played for the San Francisco Giants, Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers, Montreal Expos, and New York Mets...
  
  
• 2002: Ed Walsh
  Ed Walsh
  Edward Augustine Walsh was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He holds the record for lowest career ERA, 1.82.-Baseball career:Born in Plains Township, Pennsylvania, Walsh had a brief though remarkable major league career...
  
  
• 2002: Bob Williams

• 2003: Steve Bilko
  Steve Bilko
  Stephen Thomas Bilko , was an American professional baseball player known for his home run hitting as a minor league player during the 1950s. He was 20 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 22, 1949, with the St. Louis Cardinals.Nat Hiken, creator of The Phil Silvers Show,...
  
  
• 2003: Lee Elia
  Lee Elia
  Lee Constantine Elia is a former professional baseball player and manager in Major League Baseball. He was a manager of the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies . Additionally, he has served as a coach for the Phillies, New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Baltimore...
  
  
• 2003: Joseph Page
• 2003: Robert Walk

• 2004: George (Ken) Griffey Sr
• 2004: Mark Gubicza
  Mark Gubicza
  Mark Steven Gubicza is a former Major League Baseball pitcher for 14 seasons for the Kansas City Royals and Anaheim Angels . He currently does color commentary for Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim games on Fox Sports...
  
  

• 2005: Greg Gross
  Greg Gross
  Gregory Eugene Gross , is a former professional baseball player who played in the Major Leagues from 1973-1989, playing for the Chicago Cubs, Houston Astros, and Philadelphia Phillies...
  
  
• 2005: Stanley (Bucky) Harris
  Bucky Harris
  Stanley Raymond "Bucky" Harris was a Major League Baseball player, manager and executive. In 1975, the Veterans Committee elected Harris, as a manager, to the Baseball Hall of Fame.-Biography:...
  
  

• 2006: Jim W Russell

• 2007: Joe Glenn
  Joe Glenn (baseball)
  Joseph Charles Glenn was a backup catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees , St. Louis Browns and Boston Red Sox . Glenn batted and threw right-handed...
  
  

• 2008: Walter Harris
  Walter Harris
  Walter Edward Harris, PC, QC was a Canadian politician and lawyer.Harris was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Liberal Member of Parliament for the Ontario riding of Grey-Bruce in the 1940 election defeating Agnes MacPhail...
  
  
• 2008: Pete Vukovich

External links

• Official website
• Annual convention webpage