Steve Stein emailed me to tell me that the Transcontinental Baseball League have released the names of this year’s TBL Hall of Fame induction.
It’s quite a worthy class.
The Transcontinental Baseball League has announced its class of 2013.
Greg Maddux (league best 403 Wins, 5323 IP) was selected on his fist appearance on the ballot, and Frank Thomas (456 HRs, 1498 RBI), Roger Clemens (359 wins), Barry Bonds (22 yrs, league records: 826 HR, 2342 RBI, .406 OBP, 2204 BBs) and Tom Glavine (312 wins) also achieved the honor of induction.
They join the following players in the TBL Hall of Fame:
- Tim Raines (2009)
- Rafael Palmeiro (2009)
- Mark Mcgwire (2009)
- Rickey Henderson (2009)
- Tony Gwynn (2009)
- Barry Larkin (2009)
- John Franco (2009)
- David Cone (2009)
- Kevin Brown (2009)
- Orel Hershiser (2009)
- Larry Walker (2010)
- Roberto Alomar (2011)
- Jeff Bagwell (2011)
- Fred Mcgriff (2011)
- Kevin Appier (2011)
- Craig Biggio (2012)
Some of those numbers are astronomical. Wow, 826 HR for Bonds!
Congrats to the players and each of their managers!!
Here is Barry’s awesome TBL career, mostly playing for the Rochester Express. From 1992 to 2005, the Express had 3 league championships in 6 world series appearances and missed the postseason only once.
In 2002, Bonds hit 81 HRs with 188 BBs (only 8 intentional), 0.366/0.538/0.919, missing the triple crown by 11 RBI. Rochester won 124 games that year (a league record), but suffered a bitter loss to the Elders of Zion in the championship.
And speaking of the Elders of Zion, here is Greg Maddox’s stellar career, anchoring Zion’s pitching staff. He won 403 games in his 22 year career, including a league record 31 wins in 36 starts (34 CG) with a 1.26 ERA in 1995. Greg was a 20-game winner 8 times, and holds league records in Wins, Winning Pct, Innings Pitched, Complete Games, Shutouts and Hit Batters.