SMSBL Hall of Fame

Greg was born and raised in Burbank, California, where growing up he and his brothers participated in football, basketball and baseball through youth city leagues. His first year in organized baseball was in 1966 as a T-baller. Greg played baseball into college, and as the fifth man in a four-man rotation he quickly realized he was never going to be paid to play baseball. Soon after high school he began studying emergency medical services. He worked as a paramedic for the Los Angeles Fire Department, and then moved to El Dorado County where he continued in EMS as a firefighter/paramedic with the Georgetown Fire Department.

After a career change in the early 1990s, Greg has been a special education teacher and high school baseball coach. He coached for almost two decades at Golden Sierra High School and is now coaching at Ponderosa High School. Within these programs Greg has had the opportunity to be a part of two section championships, several league championships, and many playoff appearances. Greg is quite proud of the many players he helped guide who have moved on to coach at the high school and youth levels.

As a member of the Sacramento Men’s Senior Baseball League, Greg has been on the Sacramento Orioles roster for over two decades where he has been a member of teams that have won several league championships. Greg was also a member of the father-son tournament team the Capital City Cardinals, where he played alongside his son James and his nephew Emory. The Cards have won the Sacramento Father’s Day Tournament as well as a national title at the MSBL World Series in Arizona. Greg was the starting pitcher in the 2009 national title game for the Cards, and he continues to play in the Sacramento MSBL.

Greg has been married to Kim since 1983, and they have two grown children, James and Elizabeth, both special education teachers (and James is the head varsity baseball coach at Monarch High School near Boulder, Colorado). They have three grandchildren, Mason, Cooper, and Margaret Joy.

Greg has been part of the Orioles starting rotation, along with HOF’er Craig Parker, for two plus decades and has been one of the top southpaws in the league. But his pitching doesn’t take a back seat to his ability to hit and spray the ball to all fields. Greg is the complete package as a player and teammate.