Lancaster-Lebanon League baseball coaches have selected all-stars for the 2023 season. (Pictured: above, Ryan Bromirksi; below, Drew Hurst, Coy Schwanger, Dillon Shortuse, Camryn Simes.)
First Team
Pitchers
Gavin Glass, Manheim Township 4-1; .929 ERA; 37.2 IP; 49K .325 BA, 11 RBI
Logan Harelson, Hempfield 5-0; 1.69 ERA; 29 IP; 43K .366 BA, 15 hits, 8 RBI
Hunter Williams, Hempfield 4-0; 1.79 ERA; 27.1 IP; 31K, 1 save
Catcher
After 18 years in pro baseball, plenty of youth games on local diamonds and countless hours of throwing the ball around with friends or just off a wall with himself, Jeff Bianchi maintains his intense passion for the game.
Lancaster-Lebanon League Section 1, 2 and 3 baseball coaches have selected the following all-stars for the 2022 season.
Section 1
First Team
C -- Ryan Flury, Manheim Township
P -- Matt Seibert, Warwick; Hunter Sipel, Penn Manor; Fisher Druck, Manheim Township; Ben Shenosky, Manheim Township
INF -- Michael Heckman, Manheim Township; Aaron Hess, Warwick; David Wooley, Warwick; Matthew Williams, Warwick
The 4-page program from the 1946 Sportswriters and Broadcasters and Inter-State Baseball League banquet piqued our interest about sports in the county in those days
The Lancaster Sportswriters and Broadcasters Association formed at this same time and held what it called its annual dinner. At least some years in the '40s this was combined with the baseball writers' banquet.
Ed Flick, board chairman of the Lancaster County Sports Hall of Fame Night threw a first pitch during Hall of Fame Night at the Lancaster Barnstormers.
Flick and many other board members were recognized on the field before the game against the High Point Rockers.
The organization distributed information and treats to trick-or-treaters during Halloween in the Ballpark!
The game produced a ninth-inning collapse and then a comeback for the Barnstormers, who won 4-3.
Tom Herr's major accomplishments in sports -- St. Louis Cardinals second baseman, first Lancaster Barnstormers manager -- are well known. But Herr has a much longer resume less in the public eye.
Dylan King had a big day during the quarterfinal round of the Lancaster-Lebanon League baseball playoffs.
King threw six innings of no-hit baseball and knocked in two runs as the Manheim Township Blue Streaks beat Annville-Cleona 3-0. With King reaching the 100-pitch limit, Evan Clark pitched a perfect seventh.
Don Wert received the J. Freeland Chryst Award in 1993 and the George W. Kirchner Award in 1978.
On Sept.17,1968, at Tiger Stadium in Detroit, the Tigers and New York Yankees played for the American League Pennant. In the bottom of the ninth inning the score was tied at 1. I was in the batter's box with 2 outs and the bases loaded.
Tom Herr won the J. Freeland Chryst Award in 1995 and the George W. Kirchner Award in 1998. We asked him about his favorite sports memories.
There are many highlights as you can imagine, but here are a few.
1. 1985 NLCS Cardinals vs. Dodgers game 6. Jack Clark hits a 3 run HR late in the game to put us ahead of the Dodgers and send us to the World Series.
2. September game in 1985 pennant race in Philadelphia. Vince Coleman gets on base and steals his 100th base and then I drive him in for my 100th RBI.
Luke Trainer will never forget opening day 2021 for Millersville Marauders baseball.
In the first game of a doubleheader against Clarion, Trainer hit for the cycle. After popping to short in his first-inning at-bat, the senior catcher from Conestoga Valley had a grand slam in the second, an RBI single in the fourth, 2-RBI double in the fifth and RBI triple in the sixth. If you're counting, that's 8 RBI. Millersville won the 7-inning game 18-5.