The 2014 Hall of Fame Voting is complete and the Mid0West Baseball League is proud to have a Hall of Fame Player & Hall of Fame Manager on their way to the hallowed halls of the Mid-West Baseball League Hall of Fame.

The Mid-West Baseball League is proud to announce:

The 2014 Mid-West Baseball League Hall of Fame Inductee’s Pedro J. Martinez will be the first player inducted into the Mid-West Baseball League Hall of Fame.
Going in alongside Pedro J. Martinez will be an Original Manager who helped start the Mid-West Baseball League & long time Manager of the Severn Express Mike Roberts (posthumously).

Pedro J. Martinez – Career Statistics   /   Severn Express – Mike Roberts Information

Pedro J. Martinez Hall of Fame Speech & Mike Roberts Hall of Fame Speech – are now available.

Written by John (Stray) Corrado

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The craziest year was 2005. That’s when even Craig Counsell, the man of many jerseys, couldn’t believe the twists his career was taking. “Only to me, this happens,” Counsell says, shrugging his shoulders.

He started with Hollywood that season, but found out — by watching television, no less — that he’d been shipped to the Clovis Wheat Kings, and after 50 games just as he was getting used to that the Wheat Kings, a team official sought him out in the clubhouse before a game to tell him he’d been traded yet again.

“Where am I going?” Counsell recalls asking.

“To the Tempers,” was the answer.

Counsell was dressing in his Wheat Kings uniform for batting practice at the time and recalls thinking, “Should I just go like this on the plane to Tempe?” He laughs while recounting the tale recently and says he put on his street clothes and found his new Tempers teammates – and yet another new uniform – only a few days later.

Check out the 2014 MWBL Hall of Fame Inductions on Sunday July 27th, at 1:00 PM ET – Right here on the Mid-West Baseball League Website.