Hall of Fame
• Participated in football, basketball, baseball and track.
• All-MIAA in football in 1959.
• All-MIAA for baseball in 1958.
• Honorable Mention All-MIAA in basketball for the 1958-59 and 1959-60 seasons.
• Randall Bosch Award Winner.
• MIAA MVP in football.
• Pitched a no-hit game against Calvin in 1958.
• Held all-time record for total offense in the MIAA - 1,193 in six games. This record for total offense was held until 1970.
• Total offense in 1959 of 1,538 yards ranked third in the country and first in the state.
• Signed with the Detroit Tigers in the spring of 1960.
• Also aggressively sought by the professional football league.
• Held college broad jump record for several years.
• In 1968, hit .264 knocking 21 homeruns while leading the Tigers in RBI with 90.
• Key figure in the Tigers drive to the World Championship, hitting his fifth grand slam of the 1968 season in the sixth game of the World Series
and then drove in the tie-breaking run off of the Cardinals' great Bob Gibson in the seventh game to pace the Tigers to their
first championship since 1945.
• 1964, International League Rookie of the Year.
