OSAGE BEACH – A team representing Advertising Plus and guest-starring former football great Eddie Moss took top honors in the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame’s Lake of the Ozarks Celebrity Golf Classic presented by the Missouri Eagle. The event, held at scenic The Club at Porto Cima by Lake of the Ozarks, drew more than… Read more »
The truth is, Jason Isringhausen never intended to be a pitcher. In fact, he was a center fielder when he headed off to junior college. “Some scouts started coming around after seeing my arm, and I went to a couple of tryout camps, where they asked me if I ever pitched,” Isringhausen said. “I just… Read more »
He once struck out 32 batters in an American Legion district championship game, and that may not even be Bob Detherage’s best story. For that, go back to the late 1970s when his dad, about a year before he would pass away, phoned the Kansas City Royals – posing as his son – and asked… Read more »
Story by Mark Stillwell If the truth be told, Bill Rowe wouldn’t have minded a few more years coaching the Missouri State baseball Bears. After 19 seasons, his program was enjoying its longest run of sustained success when he answered the University’s call in 1982 to step aside from his diamond duties and spearhead the… Read more »
The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, which is honoring former Missouri State athletic director Bill Rowe as a Missouri Sports Legend, continues to sell tickets and tables to the upcoming Baseball Luncheon presented by the Ozarks Coca-Cola/Dr Pepper Bottling Company. The event is at 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 18 at the University Plaza Convention Center… Read more »
The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame hopes everyone enjoys a great Mother’s Day weekend. To help, we are offering free admission to grandmothers, mothers and aunts on Sunday. The Hall is open from noon to 4 p.m. on Sundays, and regular admission is $5, or $4 for seniors, $3 for children and family passes are… Read more »
Call it a huge success. A team sponsored by Embark Staffing and 31 other teams on Friday helped to cap a terrific two-day event with the Greater Ozarks Chapter of the MU Alumni Association. The association held the Tiger Ball & Scholarship Auction presented by Meyer Farms, KTXTR HD and KWTO on Thursday, with none… Read more »
Tonight is the night for the annual Tiger Ball & Scholarship Auction presented by Meyer Farms, KTXR HD and KWTO. The event, a student scholarship fundraiser for the Greater Ozarks Chapter of the MU Alumni Association, begins at 6 p.m. with cocktails and the full program at 7 p.m. — all at the University Plaza Convention… Read more »
At age 10, he went to work on a vegetable farm, but not by choice. The family needed the money after his dad, a coal miner in eastern Pennsylvania, passed away. Fortunately for George Toma, the minor leagues rescued him as a teenager in the 1940s. But not because he could hit or pitch. Instead,… Read more »
The Missouri Sports Hall of Fame joins with the family of Gerald “Shag” Grossnickle in mourning the recent passing of one of the state’s great conservationists who also championed amateur sports in the Kirksville area. Grossnickle, 100, passed away on April 25 in Kirksville. He was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in… Read more »
Three weeks before Brent Maggard was born, his mom was playing in a slow-pitch game in which she even slid into second base. “She was safe, by the way,” Maggard said. “That’s where it all began.” So it’s probably no surprise that baseball has long held a grip on Maggard, who went on to star… Read more »
In the years before Major League Baseball selected players through an amateur draft, players had to do everything they could to pique the interest of scouts – especially to attract them to rural communities. Former Bolivar High School pitching standout Tom Wilson did just that, as he turned several successful seasons into a contract offer… Read more »
In rural Wright County, not far from where his family ran a dairy and cattle farm, the kid who fell in love – first with baseball, then a girl named Calleen – is proof of a universal truth: If the big leagues never come calling, you can still make it big in small-town America –… Read more »
EUREKA – A team featuring former basketball standout Bud Stallworth took home top honors in the St. Louis Celebrity Golf Classic presented by Hillyard, Inc., on Thursday at The Legends. Stallworth’s group featured Harley Owens, Logan Mayfield and Tim Clubb and fired a 60 in the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame’s first celebrity golf tournament… Read more »
Years before she would become a standout softball player at tradition-rich Stafford High School, Sophia (Alexander) Denning would head over to a coach’s backyard and learn how to pitch. “There’s no telling how many tomato plants I killed in his garden,” Denning said with a smile, “by throwing wild pitches over the fence.” Denning, however,… Read more »
When she first moved to southwest Missouri, Marin (Whorton) Cooney learned to pitch by throwing against the side of her house. By the mid-1990s, the Ozark High School standout was one of the area’s top arms, helping the program win 67 games in four years. Now Cooney’s career is being remembered again as the Missouri… Read more »
