Former Waverly Baseball Coach Headed To State Hall Of Fame

(Photo Courtesy of Waverly Athletic Department)

Retired Waverly High School Baseball Coach Tom Monroe has been notified that he will be inducted into the Ohio High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame, during their winter baseball clinic this January.

Monroe coached baseball for 26 of the 30 years he taught in the Waverly School System, where he won three SOC championships and seven sectional tournament titles.

Many of Monroe’s former players went on to play college baseball, but two standouts eventually made it to the big leagues. John Shoemaker, who played both basketball and baseball at Miami University, later signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers, where he eventually spent 46 years- mostly as a coach and manager. Another player for Monroe to be drafted in pro baseball was Tim Tackett in the early 1990’s, going to the Boston Red Sox.

Monroe also had some success as a golf coach at Waverly, with his teams placing fourth and sixth at the state tournament in 1993 and 1994.

After retiring from baseball, Monroe coached girls softball at Waverly for two seasons.

Tom is a native of Grove City, Ohio but has spent most of his life in the Waverly area.