All Time Hawaii High School Baseball Team

Sickbastard · Post by **Sickbastard** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:19 am

Alright guys, list your choices in this thread. Bust out all the names throughout the past century.

Gatorade · Post by **Gatorade** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:53 am

Back in the day, Mike Lum Roosevelt High School--Atlanta Braves.

uhwarriors · Post by **uhwarriors** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:29 am

Gatorade wrote:Back in the day, Mike Lum Roosevelt High School--Atlanta Braves.

He also played for the Cinncinati Reds during the "Big Red Machine" glory years with Bench, Morgan, Rose, Foster, Perez, Concepcion and Griffey Sr.

Here's a couple more:

John Mathias (4 HRs in one game in the Honolulu Stadium)
Glen Goya (perfect game in State finals)
Joey Meyer
Derek Tatsuno
Gerald Ako

Duster · Post by **Duster** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:27 pm

A number of excellent nominees were listed in the other post. I still list Greg Oniate and Les Kakazu from Waipahu. My recollection is that Kakazu's batting average (not slugging percentage) at the end of the season was over .500 and Oni was just under .500 (which is extra fantastic for a power hitter).

Sid Fernandez of Kaiser was listed in the other thread. He was a dominant pitcher. Mike Fetters of Iolani, too.

When growing up in Kaneohe, my heroes were Castle guys - Terrance Tajima (SS), Sam Kakazu (SS), Jeff Akamine (OF), Glenn Silva (P) and Carlos Diaz (P). My classmate Wayne Takamori (P) was outstanding, too.

Richard Olsen (P) from Kailua (the current Rainbow's dad) was a thorn in the side of Castle.

Gene Smith (P) and David Smith (P) from Kalani, I believe. Also Len Sakata and Ryan Kurosaki.

I think Terry Derby of PC stole a lot of bases and was the State 100 yard champ his senior year.

Wally Yonamine should be mentioned as well, but I wasn't even born when he played.

Hard to compare guys from different eras, though.

Grinch · Post by **Grinch** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:19 pm

Duster: Do you remember a player named Carl Fratticelli (not sure about the spelling). I think he played for Kailua High in the 80s, and then college ball somewhere (perhaps Loyola).

Anyways, I played against him in a Little League All-Star game in Hilo, and he was they dominant pitcher of the tournament.

bulla · Post by **bulla** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:07 pm

Grinch wrote:Duster: Do you remember a player named Carl Fratticelli (not sure about the spelling). I think he played for Kailua High in the 80s, and then college ball somewhere (perhaps Loyola).

Anyways, I played against him in a Little League All-Star game in Hilo, and he was they dominant pitcher of the tournament.

he's coaching at St Louis i believe.....

Gobows66 · Post by **Gobows66** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:43 pm

My buddy who coaches at kaiser said that Colby Ho, Peter Ho's son had only 3 strikouts...alll year!!! That's got to be some record.

sl1322 · Post by **sl1322** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:18 pm

bulla wrote:
Grinch wrote:Duster: Do you remember a player named Carl Fratticelli (not sure about the spelling). I think he played for Kailua High in the 80s, and then college ball somewhere (perhaps Loyola).

Anyways, I played against him in a Little League All-Star game in Hilo, and he was they dominant pitcher of the tournament.
he's coaching at St Louis i believe.....

i think he went to kalaheo. anyway, he did play for LMU and they would one day meet UH in a regional (can't remember the site). LMU had a good team with fraticelli, chris donnels (future MLB), tim layana (future MLB) and billy bean (future MLB as well, but more famous recently for coming out regarding his sexuality).

Gatorade · Post by **Gatorade** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:15 pm

He also played for the Cinncinati Reds during the "Big Red Machine" glory years with Bench, Morgan, Rose, Foster, Perez, Concepcion and Griffey Sr.

Thatâ€™s good recall, Lum was sort of like a hero for all us PAL kids, local boy in the Pros. They didnâ€™t have many back then but local baseball was big.

Duster · Post by **Duster** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:02 pm

sl1322 wrote:
bulla wrote:
Grinch wrote:Duster: Do you remember a player named Carl Fratticelli (not sure about the spelling). I think he played for Kailua High in the 80s, and then college ball somewhere (perhaps Loyola).

Anyways, I played against him in a Little League All-Star game in Hilo, and he was they dominant pitcher of the tournament.
he's coaching at St Louis i believe.....
i think he went to kalaheo. anyway, he did play for LMU and they would one day meet UH in a regional (can't remember the site). LMU had a good team with fraticelli, chris donnels (future MLB), tim layana (future MLB) and billy bean (future MLB as well, but more famous recently for coming out regarding his sexuality).

Yep. He was a Kalaheo guy. Aside from the great talent, the thing that I seem to remember about that LMU team was their "skill" at getting on base via HBP.

letsgobows · Post by **letsgobows** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:41 am

brandon toro and jason doi. kamehameha c/o 92's finest.

Gobows66 · Post by **Gobows66** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:47 pm

From that 92 class, what about Kalalea M? I remember he could pound that ball. Paul Ah Yat (Iolani '91) wasn't too bad of a pitcher who went to Cal then transfered to Hawaii.

alohaspirit · Post by **alohaspirit** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:11 pm

Duster wrote:A number of excellent nominees were listed in the other post. I still list Greg Oniate and Les Kakazu from Waipahu. My recollection is that Kakazu's batting average (not slugging percentage) at the end of the season was over .500 and Oni was just under .500 (which is extra fantastic for a power hitter).

Sid Fernandez of Kaiser was listed in the other thread. He was a dominant pitcher. Mike Fetters of Iolani, too.

When growing up in Kaneohe, my heroes were Castle guys - Terrance Tajima (SS), Sam Kakazu (SS), Jeff Akamine (OF), Glenn Silva (P) and Carlos Diaz (P). My classmate Wayne Takamori (P) was outstanding, too.

Richard Olsen (P) from Kailua (the current Rainbow's dad) was a thorn in the side of Castle.

Gene Smith (P) and David Smith (P) from Kalani, I believe. Also Len Sakata and Ryan Kurosaki.

I think Terry Derby of PC stole a lot of bases and was the State 100 yard champ his senior year.

Wally Yonamine should be mentioned as well, but I wasn't even born when he played.

Hard to compare guys from different eras, though.

"Gene Smith (P) and David Smith (P) from Kalani" - played for Kaimuki.

Glenn Goya - I believe he went to Colorado and was the NCAA batting champ one year.

All those Kaiser teams of the late 70's and early 80's ... Belen, Kapuniai, Ho, Komeji, Sid ...

Radford's middle infielders of the early 80's ... Jon Diaz, Jeff Obrero and pitcher Peter Kendrick

Aiea pitching staff of the mid 70's ... Ako, Heard, Tatsuno

what about Mitchell Moran (I think that was his name) played for Waipahu and the Dodger system ...

what ever happened to Brant McCreadie of Kaiser ... wasn't he supposed to be a stud???? did he get injured after high school???

alohaspirit · Post by **alohaspirit** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:19 pm

slightly off topic ... what about high school coaches?

I think there is one common thread of many of the local players that made the majors in the 70's ... John Nakamura I think was the head coach or at least pitching coach for various OIA baseball teams... last I heard was an assistant coach for Bob Coolen's UH Wahine softball teams.

I believe Nakamura was the coach at:

Kalani when Lenn Sakata (Orioles, Yanks, Brewers?) and Ryan Kurasak (Cards)i played there.

Kailua when Doug Capilla (Reds)

Castle's pitching coach to - Carlos "Bimbo" Diaz (Dodgers, Mets, Braves),as well as Glenn Silva, Wayne Takamori, Guy Ogawa, Ross Sakamoto, Mark Kawakami ...

Gobows66 · Post by **Gobows66** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:07 pm

I think Brant McCreadie went into boxing. He was nuttie and had about 49 cards in his deck!!!!!

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