Inducted March 2007

    MIKE SHENK
                                                                              
     Mike actually began playing softball after high school as a fast pitch player. He played fast pitch for two years and switched to slow pitch in order to be able to play the game with his friends.

     Mike played at the Major and Super level of slow pitch softball from 1992 until 2002.  Prior to hooking up with some of the best major and super teams throughout the country Mike played with Farrell’s Maintenance of Litiz, PA from 1987 through 1991 winning two ASA of PA Class “A” State Championships.  In 1992 he moved up to the major level playing with Taylor Brothers of Providence, RI in 1992 and 1993.

     In 1994 he played with Shen Valley/TPS of Bridgewater, VA finishing 4^th in the Super Nationals. 

      In 1995 and 1996 he played with Lighthouse/Worth of Stone Mountain, GA finishing 1^st in the 1995 Super Nationals and 3^rd in the 1996 Super Nationals. 

      In 1997 he played for Ritch’s-Superior/TS of Windsor Locks, CT finishing first again in the Super Nationals.  In 1998 he played with Team TPS of Louisville, KY finishing 3^rd in the Super Nationals. 

      In 1998 he played with Team TPS of Louisville, KY finishing 3^rd in the Super Nationals.  Mike played with Team Easton of Burklingame, CA in 1999 finishing first in the Super Nationals.  In 2000 he played with Team TPS of Louisville, KY winning the super Nationals once again.  In 2001 and 2002 he played with Long Haul/TPS of Albertville, MN where they won the Super Nationals both years. 

      With Mike’s ASA honors and play in other associations he is a 21 time National All American/All World player and a two time national MVP Award Winner. 

      In his ten year career in the major and super division he batted over 600 every year, hitting over 700 in five of those years.  He hit a total of 1,098 home runs in those ten years.  Remember most of those major and super games were played in baseball fields or fields with baseball type fence distances. 

      He competed in a hitting demonstration in Detroit at Tigers’ Stadium and hit balls off the Press Box with a couple balls hitting the facing of the right field roof of the stadium.  Truly amazing. 

      Mike and his wife Kathy and two children reside in Ephrata, Pennsylvania.