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Barry Shollenberger
Biographical details
Born1941 (1941)
Pennsylvania, U.S.
Playing career
1962Waterloo Hawks
1963Rocky Mount Leafs
1965Tampa Tarpons
Position(s)Pitcher
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1976Middle Georgia Junior College
1977–1979Western Kentucky
1980–1994Alabama
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
Baseball America College Coach of the Year (1983)

Barry John Shollenberger (born 1941) is a retired American baseball and football coach. During his career, Shollenberger worked in both sports while with Tampa Bay Technical High School from 1965 to 1973. In college baseball, Shollenberger started out with the Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team as an assistant coach in 1974. He then became the head coach for Middle Georgia Junior College in 1976. As the head coach for Western Kentucky University from 1977 to 1979, Shollenberger had 77 wins, 64 losses and 3 ties.

With Alabama from 1980 to 1994, Shollenberger amassed 487 wins, 334 losses and 1 tie. During this time period, Shollenberger appeared at the championship game during the 1983 College World Series and was the Baseball America College Coach of the Year that year. Apart from coaching, Shollenberger was a minor league pitcher from 1961 to 1965. While with the Waterloo Hawks, Shollenberger received the Midwest League Top MLB Prospect Award in 1962.

Early life and education

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Shollenberger was born in Pennsylvania in 1941.[1] During the 1950s, Shollenberger attended Reading High School and began his baseball career there.[2] With the Reading Red Knights, Shollenberger was a pitcher in the East Penn League from 1957 to 1959.[3][4]

At the end of the 1950s, Shollenberger was part of the American Legion Baseball league with Berks County and Pulaski.[5][2] While in the American Legion, Shollenberger pitched in the 1959 All-Star game for Pennsylvanian teams and was named one of the Most Valuable Players after the event.[6]

In 1965, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1965 from Moravian College. He later attended the University of Tampa in the 1960s as a graduate student. In the 1970s, Shollenberger completed a Master of Arts at Western Kentucky University and a Doctor of Education at the University of Alabama.[7][2]

Career

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Playing career

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In 1960, Shollenberger joined the Mitchell Kernels as part of the Basin League.[8] For Mitchell, Shollenberger had experience as a left fielder and primarily held the position of relief pitcher.[9] In 1961, Shollenberger continued his semi-professional in the Basin League when he became part of the Sturgis Titans.[10][9] While with Sturgis, Shollenberger was a pitcher while also serving as a one-game replacement umpire.[11][12] During these two years, Shollenberger pitched for Moravian College.[2] With Moravian, Shollenberger and the team won the Middle Atlantic Conference in 1960.[13]

Shollenberger began his minor league baseball career as a pitcher in 1961. He started with the Waterloo Hawks before moving to the Rocky Mount Leafs and Tampa Tarpons in the 1960s. He was selected by the Cincinnati Reds in the First-Year Player Draft on November 26, 1962 after going 16–5 with 226 strikeouts in 185 innings with the Hawks.[14] After tendinopathy forced Shollenberger to end his pitching career in 1965, he had a career total of seventeen wins and fifteen losses.[1]

Coaching career

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At Brewster Technical High School in 1965, Shollenberger worked for their baseball team as an assistant coach.[15] The following year, Shollenberger began coaching the baseball team at Brewster.[16] In 1967, he won the Tampa Bay Conference Baseball Tournament with Brewster.[17] In additional coaching positions, Shollenberger was in charge of the backfield for the football team and led a basketball team during the 1960s.[18][19]

In 1969, Brewster Tech was succeeded by Tampa Bay Vocational-Technical School.[20] With Tampa Bay Tech's football team, Shollenberger was in charge of the defensive team and worked as an assistant coach by the end of 1970. That year, he was chosen to become their football coach.[21] By 1971, he had become their baseball coach.[22] The following year, his football team were one of the winners of the Tampa Bay Conference.[23] In June 1973, Shollenberger ended his coaching positions with Tampa Bay Tech.[24]

In 1974, Shollenberger went to the University of Alabama to become an assistant baseball coach. He stayed as assistant coach until 1976 when he resumed his head coach career with the Middle Georgia Junior College baseball team.[7] After the 1976 season, Shollenberger obtained a head baseball coach position with Western Kentucky University in 1977 and stayed as their head coach until 1979.[25] With the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers baseball team, Shollenberger reached the final of the 1978 playoffs held by the Ohio Valley Conference.[26] He had 77 wins, 64 losses and 3 ties with Western Kentucky.[27]

Shollenberger joined the Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team as their baseball coach in June 1979.[28] He made his debut as Alabama's coach in February 1980.[29] With Alabama, Shollenberger and his team won the 1983 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament.[30] That year, Shollenberger's players appeared in the championship game of the 1983 College World Series.[31] Shollenberger remained with Alabama until he left the team in 1994.[32] Before leaving the team, Shollenberger had an overall record of 487 wins, 334 losses and 1 tie.[33]

Awards

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While with the Hawks, Shollenberger received the Midwest League Top MLB Prospect Award in 1962.[34] In 1978, he was the Coach of the Year for the Ohio Valley Conference while at Western Kentucky.[35] With Alabama, Shollenberger was the 1983 Southeastern Conference Baseball Coach of the Year.[36] That year, he was the Baseball America College Coach of the Year.[37] He also became part of a hall of fame for Moravian.[38]

References

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  1. ^ a b "It's like coming home". Anniston Star. 8 June 1979. p. 4B.
  2. ^ a b c d Meixell, Ted (May 25, 1986). "A L.V. connection at Alabama". The Morning Call. p. C3.
  3. ^ "P-burg Bows To Reading". Sunday Call-Chronicle. Allentown, Pennsylvania. April 28, 1957. p. 50.
  4. ^ "Reading Jolts Canaries From First Place, 5-0". The Morning Call. May 2, 1959. p. 15.
  5. ^ "Schuylkill County Legion Stars Beat Berks Nine, 4-2". Evening Herald. Shenandoah, Pennsylvania. July 8, 1958. p. Ten.
  6. ^ Fisher, Bill (August 30, 1959). "West Nips East". The Sunday News. Lancaster, Pennsylvania. p. 34.
  7. ^ a b "1979 Western Kentucky University Hilltopper Baseball" (Press release). WKU Athletic Media Relations. 1979. p. 3. Retrieved November 14, 2021.
  8. ^ "Kernels Sign Manager; Marr Is Only Returnee". Argus-Leader. June 5, 1960. p. 3D.
  9. ^ a b Hastings, Marv (April 13, 1961). "Kernels From The Field of Sports". The Daily Republic. Mitchell, South Dakota. p. Ten.
  10. ^ McCarron, Joe (June 14, 1961). "Inside Stuff". The Morning Call. p. 30.
  11. ^ Herdien, Bob (June 22, 1962). "Basin League Is Proving Grounds". Waterloo Daily Courier. p. Thirteen.
  12. ^ "Bill Haywood, Shollenberger Become Umps". The Daily Plainsman. Huron, South Dakota. August 3, 1961. p. Seven.
  13. ^ "1960 MAC Champion Baseball Team to be Honored on April 18". Moravian University. April 17, 2015. Retrieved November 14, 2021.
  14. ^ "Majors Pay Draft High Of $695G," The Associated Press (AP), Tuesday, November 27, 1962. Retrieved February 27, 2023.
  15. ^ "Rams Surprised, But Pleasantly". The Tampa Times. September 18, 1965. p. 11.
  16. ^ Kirby, Bill (March 22, 1966). "Winning Is Fun". The Tampa Tribune. p. 1-C.
  17. ^ "Brewster Gets Sharp Pitching". The Tampa Times. April 15, 1967. p. 14.
  18. ^ Bloodworth, Bob (September 21, 1966). "Three More Schools Making Tardy Starts". The Tampa Times. p. 14.
  19. ^ Genovese, Chico (April 19, 1967). "Break Up the Rams!". The Tampa Times. p. 16.
  20. ^ "New School For Hillsborough". The Tampa Tribune. September 3, 1969. p. 2-B.
  21. ^ Croft, Tom (3 December 1970). "Thompson leaving grid post at Tech". Tampa Times. p. 13-C.
  22. ^ Smith, Jeff (May 3, 1971). "Lazzara wins as MVP". The Tampa Times. p. 2-C.
  23. ^ "The TBC Co-Champs". The Tampa Tribune. January 18, 1972. p. 5-C.
  24. ^ "Shollenberger Leaves Titans". Tampa Tribune. 1 June 1973. p. 10C.
  25. ^ Harrison, Lowell H. (1987). Western Kentucky University. University Press of Kentucky. p. 228. ISBN 0813116201. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  26. ^ "Western baseballers bow in OVC title game". Daily News. Bowling Green, Kentucky. May 7, 1978. p. 23-A.
  27. ^ "Hilltopper Baseball 2020 Media Guide" (PDF). Western Kentucky University. February 3, 2020. p. 107. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  28. ^ Hanes, Clark (June 12, 1979). "Bama bound". The Park City Daily News. p. 6.
  29. ^ "Tide baseballers open with 9-5 win". The Montgomery Advertiser and Alabama Journal. February 23, 1980. p. 3B.
  30. ^ Bliss, Ron (May 17, 1983). "Tide earns SEC title". The Advertiser. Montgomery, Alabama. p. 1B.
  31. ^ Lanier, Jim (June 13, 1983). "Bittersweet finish for Crimson Tide". Birmingham Post-Herald. p. B5.
  32. ^ "UA tabs former LSU assistant". The Anniston Star. Associated Press. June 4, 1994. p. 4B.
  33. ^ "LSU wary before tourney starts up". Enterprise-Journal. 18 May 1994. p. 6.
  34. ^ "Midwest League Award Winners". Minor League Baseball. Archived from the original on January 26, 2022. Retrieved December 31, 2022.
  35. ^ "WKU baseball coach is honored by OVC as 'coach of the year'". The Franklin Favorite. May 18, 1978. p. A-4.
  36. ^ "State lands four on SEC teams; Alabama takes overall trophy". The Greenwood Commonwealth. Associated Press. May 23, 1983. p. 6.
  37. ^ "Baseball America Awards". Baseball America. 20 July 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  38. ^ "Moravian University Hall of Fame Inductees". Moravian University. Retrieved November 14, 2012.
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