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[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

4/12/06

COLLEGE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME

OSU’s Arlin among inaugural nominees

Wednesday, April 12, 2006


FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS




Steve Arlin is Hall of Fame worthy, which is news to the former Ohio State pitcher.
The College Baseball Foundation is considering inducting Arlin into the new College Baseball Hall of Fame. But somebody forgot to tell Arlin.
"Anything like that is an honor, so I’d like to thank them, whoever they are," said Arlin, one of 46 nominees for the inaugural class. Finalists will be named April 26, with induction July 4 at the hall of fame museum being built as part of a new college stadium on the campus of Texas Tech in Lubbock.
Arlin, 60, led Ohio State to its only national championship as a junior in 1966. He went 11-2 and was named MVP of the College World Series. In 1965, he went 13-2 and struck out 20 in a 15-inning, 1-0 win over Washington State. The Buckeyes were national runners-up that season.
"Those were some real good times," he said. "The thing I remember the most was the Big Ten wasn’t well respresented at the College World Series. We didn’t play as many games, because we couldn’t get outdoors because of the weather. So we weren’t expected to do anything when we got there."
It is Arlin’s second major honor in the past five years. In 2000, the College World Series named him to its 50 th anniversary allstar team.
Hall of Fame voting is being done by current and retired college coaches, retired players, NCAA commissioners, sports information directors and media.
The breakdown of nominees is 22 players, 12 coaches and 12 coaches/players who played before 1947.
"It sounds like a really nice thing, maybe something that’s overdue," said Arlin, who recently retired from his dental practice near San Diego. "They have hall of fames for college football and basketball, too. And Texas might be a great seat for it. Where is it? Lubbock? I’ve never been there, but it’s got to be a good place to get chicken fried steak."
Other nonimees include Dave Winfield, Pete Incaviglia and Robin Ventura, who will be listed among 46 nominees formally announced today.
"Just like Canton and Cooperstown, sports fans around the nation will begin to turn their attention to Lubbock every summer," said John Askins, chairman and CEO of the College Baseball Foundation, which established the hall.
The nominees will be voted on strictly because of their college achievements. The list will be pared through two rounds of voting by an 80-member committee. Players become eligible five years after their final college season, and can’t be active at any level of professional baseball. They must have completed at least one year of competition at a four-year school, and been an All-American or made an allconference team.

 

[tibor75]

Cool. His son was my intern when I was a 4th year medical student. Smart guy.

 

[shetuck]

AP: College baseball hall of fame announces 2008 class

College baseball hall of fame announces 2008 class

Updated: March 5, 2008, 5:50 PM ET

Jackie Robinson was one of 12 former players and coaches elected Wednesday for the third induction class of the College Baseball Hall of Fame.

[...]

Also elected were former major leaguers Steve Arlin (Ohio State), Eddie Bane (Arizona State), Floyd Bannister (Arizona State), Neal Heaton (Miami), Burt Hooten (Texas), the late Dick Howser (Florida State), Ben McDonald (LSU) and Greg Swindell (Texas). Former Oklahoma State and New Mexico State coach Gary Ward also was elected.

The inductees will be honored during a July 2-4 celebration in Lubbock, Texas.

The 12 were selected from dozens of nominees by a committee of more than 90 voters. No players or coaches who are active at any level of baseball are eligible to be elected. Last year's inductees included Jim Abbott, Pete Incaviglia, Fred Lynn and John Olerud.

[...]

Arlin, who played at Ohio State from 1965-66, helped lead the school to consecutive College World Series appearances. In 1965, he had a CWS-record 20 strikeouts in a 15-inning, 1-0 victory over Washington State.

"I feel privileged and honored to be a part of college baseball's elite," Arlin said. "Representing Ohio State and the Big Ten makes this all the more special for me since those days were some of the best in my life, spent with some of my closest friends."

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[osugrad21]

Dispatch

Former Ohio State pitcher Arlin selected to college hall of fame

Thursday, March 6, 2008 7:29 AM

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With a two-year record of 24-3 with the Buckeyes, Arlin held OSU marks for victories and strikeouts (294) until 1999 and his .889 win percentage is the best in school history.

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[Buckskin86]

Steve Arlin Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac

Steven Ralph Arlin (born September 25, 1945 in Seattle, Washington) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.

In six major league seasons, Arlin pitched for the San Diego Padres (1969-74) and Cleveland Indians (1974).

College Star
Arlin was a collegiate star with the Ohio State Buckeyes. In a 1965 College World Series game against Washington State, he struck out 20 batters in 15 innings, both CWS records, in a 1-0 Buckeye victory. Ohio State, however, lost to Arizona State in the final game. The following year (1966), he led Ohio State to the National Championship and was named the tournament?s Most Valuable Player.

In his two years with the Buckeyes, Arlin posted a 24-3 record with 294 strikeouts. His 165 strikeouts in 1965 remains an Ohio State single-season record; it and the career strikeout record had been set by Paul Ebert in the 1950s. Arlin's number 22 was the first to be retired by the Ohio State baseball team.

In 1978, Arlin was inducted into the Ohio State Varsity O Hall of Fame. In 2006, Arlin was a finalist for the first induction class of the College Baseball Hall of Fame. In 2008 he was inducted.

Minor Leagues
In 1966 the Philadelphia Phillies drafted Arlin in the first round (13th overall) in the secondary phase of the amateur draft. On July 25, 1967 he pitched a no-hitter in the Eastern League. Arlin also pitched in the Phillies? farm system in 1968 before being selected by the San Diego Padres in the expansion draft.

Major Leagues
Pitching for a struggling young team, Arlin led the National League in losses in both 1971 and 1972 (19 and 21 respectively). In both seasons, however, he did post a respectable earned run average: 3.48 in 1971 and 3.60 in 1972. The 1972 season was an especially curious one for Arlin: he pitched a one-hitter, three two-hitters (in one, on July 18 against the Phillies, he had a no-hitter broken up by Denny Doyle with two out in the ninth?to date, the closest the a Padre has come to pitching a no-hitter), and a 10-inning stint in which he allowed only one hit. Yet he finished 10-21. In 1973 Arlin recorded a personal best 11 victories against 14 losses, but with a 5.10 ERA?nearly a run and a half above his career ERA to that point. Midway into the 1974 season the Padres traded Arlin to the Cleveland Indians.

During his playing career, Arlin began practicing dentistry, and became a dentist after his playing career, in which he won 34 games (11 of which were shutouts) while losing 67, with 463 strikeouts and a 4.33 earned run average in 788 2/3 innings pitched.

Arlin's grandfather, Harold Arlin, was the first broadcaster ever to call a game on radio, an August 5, 1921 game between the Phillies and Pittsburgh Pirates at Forbes Field. Harold Arlin also broadcast the first-ever football game to be called over the radio months later, a college football game between Pitt and West Virginia.

Steve Arlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Arlin elected to the College Baseball Hall of Fame

The 2008 induction class included Steve Arlin, pitcher from Ohio State; Eddie Bane and Floyd Bannister, pitchers from Arizona State; Neal Heaton, a pitcher from the University of Miami; the late Dick Howser, shortstop and coach from Florida State; Burt Hooton and Greg Swindell, pitchers from the University of Texas; Ben McDonald, a pitcher from Louisiana State University; and Gary Ward, a coach from Oklahoma State University and New Mexico State University.

College Baseball Hall of Fame Inducts Dick Howser in '08 Class

 

[WoodyWorshiper]

Congrats to Steve. I remember him with the Tribe, a very well represented team with Heaton and Swindell, also. Amazing how the game has changed. Steve had some "horrible" seasons that today would have made him millions based on his ERA alone.

Peace.

 

[SEREbuckeye]

Always great to see another Buckeye excel in something other than norm of Football or BBall. This really shows OSU's versatility in fielding top notch players from all sports.

 

[brodybuck21]

bump so this thread can get a Buckeye Leaf and be moved to the alumni forum where it belongs.

:osu:

 

[brodybuck21]

alumni bump