Source: hometownsource.com --- Tuesday, August 01, 2017
Submitted Dr. Gary Grob, long-time coach at Winona State, also played Baseball for teams in Houston County and coached numerous squads in Caledonia. He will soon be inducted in the Minnesota Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame. On September 16, Dr. Gary Grob will become only the second Caledonia/Houston County player/coach/manager to be inducted into the Minnesota Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame. “I still love Baseball,” Grob said last week as he prepared to take in the All-Star game. Born in Buffalo County, Wis., Gary’s family moved to La Crosse when he was five, where his father finished his college degree. The family then moved to La Crescent, where Grob’s dad served as a school principal for 12 years. “I had him for three years in school, and I still consider him one of the best teachers I ever had,” Gary said. Grob’s childhood Baseball heroes were “Joltin’ Joe” DiMaggio (aka the Yankee Clipper) and Micky Mantle. Both could hit, to say the least. “My dad was a Yankee fan, so it rubbed off,” he recalled. “Now I’m more of a Twins fan than anything else.” In 1949, Gary joined the La Crescent town team as a bat boy. Three years later, the 15 year-old was playing summer ball with the same town team, as well as Legion Baseball. In 1956, the family moved to Caledonia, and Grob joined the Marine Corps. Gary then managed to play Baseball for two years for the “Flying Bulls,” a military team based out of the El Toro Air Station (near Santa An ...
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