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BOSCO TECH GOLF TEAM QUALIFIES FOR CIF 
DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIPS 

SWINGING FOR THE KIDS 

The Sierra Madre Schools’ Inaugural Golf were the Platinum and Gold sponsors respectively.
Tournament made its debut at Brookside’s E.O. 


 Principal Esther Salinas was among many 

Nay Course #2 on Tuesday, May 6th. Fifty-two 

ROSEMEAD, CA. –Don Bosco Technical Institute’s (Bosco Tech) varsity golf team has qualified 

honored guests who attended the awards banquet 

players enjoyed great weather, wonderful food, 

for the CIF Team Division Championship to be held at Talega Golf Club in San Clemente on 

immediately following the tournament to 

and a day of great golf in this initial outing, which 

Monday, May 19. 

celebrate Stuart Shaklan’s team victory (pictured 

raised over $5,800 for PUSD’s Sierra Madre 

above), with the low score of 58. Dave Andres, 

The team defeated Bishop Amat Memorial High School’s varsity team 218 to 227 in the Del Rey 

Schools’ Annual Fund. 

Greg Howorth, and Rob Nishikawa rounded out 

League preliminaries on May 5 at the Rancho Park Golf Course in Los Angeles to take the top 
The SM Annual Fund raises critical unrestricted the winning foursome. 

spot in the Del Rey League. 
funds specifically for Sierra Madre’s two public 


In second place, shooting 60, was Von's Credit 

In addition, six of the team’s seven golfers individually qualified for the league finals to be 

schools; Sierra Madre Elementary and Sierra 

Union, while Montrose Travel brought home the 

held on May 8 at the Wilson Golf Course in Griffith Park. Out of five competing schools, the 

Madre Middle School. 

third place trophy with a 67. 

Bosco Tech team took six of only 16 spots available. They are: senior Alex Trinh (ranked first 
Wound Care Advantage and Santa Anita Park 

in the tournament), senior Alex Renzi, sophomore Justin Bohol, senior Andres Gonzalez 9, 
sophomore David Moreno, and senior David Rodriguez. 

After Thursday’s competition, the top seven finishing golfers will be considered "first team all-
league" and the top four will advance to the CIF Individual Regional Championship on May 12 
at Skylinks Golf Course in Long Beach. The winner will be named league MVP. 

“We’re so proud of our players,” said Claude LeBlanc, Bosco Tech varsity golf coach. “They have 
shown tremendous diligence and focus throughout the season. They have played extremely well 
as a team and strongly as individuals.” 

Bosco Tech is an all-male Catholic high school that combines rigorous college-preparatory and 
innovative technological education. The science, engineering, technology and math (STEM) 
curriculum allows students to exceed university admission requirements while completing 
extensive integrated coursework in one of several applied science and engineering programs. 
For more information about Bosco Tech, call (626) 940-2000. 

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Rays in the area of community affairs), Zimmer wears the number 66, Piersall, Pam Postema, Jackie Robinson, Lester Rodney, Pete Rose, Casey 

THE BASEBALL RELIQUARY ANNOUNCES

representing his 66th year in professional baseball. He has noted often, Stengel, Luis Tiant, Fernando Valenzuela, Bill Veeck, Jr., Maury Wills, and DIZZY DEAN, DON ZIMMER, AND and proudly, that every paycheck he’s ever gotten came from baseball, and Kenichi Zenimura. 
has never held a job in any other profession. Zimmer was told his playing 

RACHEL ROBINSON ELECTED TO THE In the coming weeks, leading up to the Shrine of the Eternals 

days were over after a disastrous beaning in the minor leagues in 1953, 

Induction Day on Sunday, July 20, 2014, further details will be announced, 

SHRINE OF THE ETERNALS FOR 2014 but he made it to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1954, beginning a twelve-year 

including the recipients of the 2014 Hilda Award (named in memory of 

big league career as an infielder. After the Los Angeles Dodgers’ World 

Hilda Chester and honoring a baseball fan’s exceptional devotion to the 

The Board of Directors of the Baseball Reliquary, Inc., a Southern Championship season in 1959, Zimmer bounced around with a series of 

game) and the 2014 Tony Salin Memorial Award (presented annually to an 

California-based nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering an truly bad teams, including the Chicago Cubs and New York Mets, before 

individual dedicated to the preservation of baseball history). 

appreciation of American art and culture through the context of baseball retiring as a major leaguer with the Washington Senators in 1965. In 1971, 
history, is pleased to announce the sixteenth class of electees to the Shrine he began a long tenure as a coach and manager for major league teams Paul Dickson, the prolific author and historian, and former 
of the Eternals. The Shrine of the Eternals is the national organization’s all over North America, including the Montreal Expos, San Diego Padres, recipient of the Tony Salin Memorial Award (2011), will be the keynote 
equivalent to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Boston Red Sox, Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants, and speaker for the Shrine of the Eternals 2014 Induction Day. Dickson’s books 

Colorado Rockies. Zimmer served three coaching stints for the New York include the award-winning Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick and the 

Dizzy Dean, Don Zimmer, and Rachel Robinson were elected 

Yankees, the last one finding him dispensing his baseball wisdom as bench most authoritative and comprehensive guide to baseball terminology ever 

upon receiving the highest number of votes in balloting conducted during 

coach/yogi from 1996-2003, during which time the team won four World compiled, The Dickson Baseball Dictionary. 

the month of April 2014 by the membership of the Baseball Reliquary. 

Series titles under the helm of Joe Torre. Zimmer is often remembered 

The three electees will be formally inducted into the Shrine of the Eternals 

for his “brawl” with Pedro Martinez during the 2003 AL Championship 

in a public ceremony on Sunday, July 20, 2014 at the Donald R. Wright 

series, when he ran at and was thrown to the ground by the Red Sox pitcher. THE SHRINE OF THE ETERNALS: 2014 VOTING 

Auditorium in the Pasadena Central Library, Pasadena, California. 

Nicknamed “Popeye” for his facial resemblance to the cartoon character, PERCENTAGES 

Of the fifty eligible candidates on the 2014 ballot, Dizzy Dean Zimmer is still a warrior at age 83. He has written two autobiographies, Zim: (Rounded off to nearest percentage point) 
received the highest voting percentage, being named on 37% of the ballots A Baseball Life and The Zen of Zim, and serves as a member of the advisory 
returned. Following Dean were Don Zimmer with 33% and Rachel board of the Baseball Assistance Team, a nonprofit organization dedicated 

Dizzy Dean 37%

Robinson with 31%. Runners-up in this year’s election included Bo Jackson to helping former players through financial and medical difficulties. 

Don Zimmer 33%

(29%), Glenn Burke (27%), Sy Berger (26%), Effa Manley (25%), Charlie 

Jackie Robinson 31%

Brown (24%), Bob Costas (24%), Ernie Harwell (24%), Steve Bilko (23%), 
and Rocky Colavito (23%). Voting percentages for all fifty candidates 


Elected to the Shrine Bo Jackson 29% 
appear at the end of this 

of the Eternals in Glenn Burke 27% 
announcement. 

her first year on the Sy Berger 26% 
ballot, RACHEL Effa Manley 25%

Elected to the 

ROBINSON (born 

Charlie Brown 24%

Shrine of the Eternals in 

1922) is arguably 

Bob Costas 24%

his fourteenth year on 

the most important 

Ernie Harwell 24%

the ballot, hurler, free-

woman in baseball 

Steve Bilko 23%

spirit, and malapropster 

history, as the widow 

extraordinaire, DIZZY 

of baseball and civil Rocky Colavito 23% 

DEAN (1910-1974), 

rights pioneer Jackie Chet Brewer 22% 

had a long and eventful 

Robinson. Rachel Mamie Johnson 22%

life in baseball, both 

met Jackie while Pete Reiser 22% 

as a pitcher and a 

they were students Rusty Staub 21%

broadcaster. The 

at UCLA and they 

Rube Waddell 20%

son of an Arkansas 

were married in 

Dr. Mike Marshall 19%

sharecropper, Jay 

1946, the year 

Denny McLain 19%

Hanna “Dizzy” Dean 

before Jackie broke 
signed in 1930 with major league baseball’s color barrier and changed America forever. Rachel Vic Power 19% 

the St. Louis Cardinals J.R. Richard 19%

counseled, consoled, and supported Jackie throughout his career, giving 
and spent the next two him strength when his will faltered, and she endured with him countless Charlie Finley 18% 
seasons in the minors, affronts to their dignity. Jackie often attested, without his wife, he could Tug McGraw 18%

peaking with Houston 

never have withstood the intense pressures of being the first African Phil Pote 18%in the Texas League in American in the major leagues. Once described by Dodger baseball Bert Campaneris 16%

1931. Promoted to the 

executive Branch Rickey as Jackie’s “tower to lean on,” Rachel kept her 

Octavius V. Catto 16%

big club permanently 

husband’s legacy alive after his premature death in 1972 by founding the 

Lisa Fernandez 16%


New York-based Jackie Robinson Foundation, 

Rube Foster 16%

in 1932, the boastful Dean quickly became the 

a nonprofit with the mandate of providing 

Fred Merkle 16%

cornerstone of the Cardinals’ rotation. The rough 

college scholarships and leadership training 

and tumble Depression-era Cardinals (dubbed 

to promising and talented young people. “As a Hideo Nomo 16% 

“The Gashouse Gang”) rode Diz’s tongue and 

nurse [Robinson] has devoted her life to caring Dan Quisenberry 16% 

golden arm (30-7, 2.65 ERA) to the NL pennant 

for others,” writes Albert Kilchesty, the Baseball Annie Savoy 16%

in 1934, besting the Tigers in a memorable 

Reliquary’s Archivist and Historian. “She has Joe Pepitone 15%

seven-game World Series. Between 1932 and 

been honored and celebrated in and out of John Young 15%

1936, Dean averaged 25 victories per season and 

baseball, and has always been gracious when 

Eliot Asinof 14%

seemed destined to become one of the National 

being acknowledged for her husband’s courage 

Charles M. Conlon 14%

League’s winningest pitchers ever until struck 

and determination. But she is more than 

Jose Canseco 13%

on the toe by a line drive during the 1937 All-

deserving of applause and recognition on her 

John Montgomery Ward 13%

Star Game. The injury forced Dean to alter his 

own merits. I have never met her. I have never 

pitching motion, leading to arm problems which 

spoken to her. Yet I have more admiration and Dave Parker 11% 

nipped his career in the bud. After retiring in 

respect for her than nearly any other woman in Fay Vincent 11% 

1941, Dean immediately moved to the broadcast 

public life. She has never played the game – she David N. Mullany 10%

booth, where he earned a huge local following as 

is the game.” George Brunet 8%

the radio voice of the St. Louis Browns, peppering 
play-by-play with his colorful reinventions of 

Dizzy Dean, Don Zimmer, and Rachel Margaret Donahue 6% 
the English language. To the dismay of English 

Robinson will join 45 other baseball luminaries Annabelle Lee 6% 
teachers everywhere, Dean became hugely 

who have been inducted into the Shrine of Hy Turkin 6% 
popular with national audiences in the 1950s as 

the Eternals since elections began in 1999, Harvey Dorfman 4% 
the primary broadcaster for network television’s 

including, in alphabetical order, Jim Abbott, John “Bonesetter” Reese 2% 
Game of the Week. The subject of a Hollywood 

Dick Allen, Roger Angell, Emmett Ashford, 

Bill Faul 1% 
bio-pic (The Pride of St. Louis) and numerous 

Moe Berg, Yogi Berra, Ila Borders, Jim Bouton, 

Laurie Brady 0.7%

Jim Brosnan, Bill Buckner, Roberto Clemente, 

biographies, Ol’ Diz was elected to the Hall of 

Charles Fairbanks 0.7%

Steve Dalkowski, Rod Dedeaux, Jim Eisenreich, 
Dock Ellis, Eddie Feigner, Mark Fidrych, Curt 

Fame in 1953. 

Elected to the Shrine of the Eternals in his tenth 

Flood, Ted Giannoulas, Josh Gibson, Jim 

year on the ballot, DON ZIMMER (born 1931) 

“Mudcat” Grant, Pete Gray, William “Dummy” 

is part of a vanishing breed – the baseball lifer. 

Hoy, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Bill James, Dr. Frank 

Now in his eleventh year as a senior advisor 

Jobe, Bill “Spaceman” Lee, Roger Maris, Marvin 

for the Tampa Bay Rays (serving as a coach/

Miller, Minnie Minoso, Manny Mota, Lefty 

advisor during spring training and for pregame 

O’Doul, Buck O’Neil, Satchel Paige, Jimmy 

practices at home games, as well as assisting the 


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