May 1, 2024 | Baseball, Legends
Debs Garms was born in Bangs in 1907. He made his MLB debut with the St. Louis Browns on August 10, 1932 and played 12 seasons for the Browns, Boston Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals. Garms broke up Johnny Vander Meer’s streak of hitless innings in...
May 1, 2024 | Athlete, Basketball, Inductees
Peyton (Little) Decker was one of the top basketball prospects in the nation when she came out of Wylie High School. Little scored over 3,000 points in her high school career and led the Lady Bulldogs to the state tournament in 2010 and state championships in 2011 and...
May 1, 2024 | Athlete, Baseball, Inductees
Cory Aldridge was a standout outfielder for the Abilene Cooper baseball team and a tight end on the Cougars’ state runner-up football team in 1996. Aldridge enjoyed a remarkable 18-year professional baseball career playing from 1997-2014 for the...
May 1, 2024 | Athlete, Football, Inductees
Jay Hess threw for a state record 3,154 yards and 37 touchdowns to lead the Eastland High School Mavericks to an unbeaten season and the Class 2A state title in 1982. He was voted the Texas High School Player of the Year for all classifications, a first-team all-state...
May 1, 2024 | Athlete, Basketball, Inductees
Frank Biggers, a 6’3” forward, played basketball for the Wallace Wildcats, a small segregated African American school in Colorado City before integration. Wallace won five state championships from 1959 to 1966. Biggers was named all-state as a sophomore in 1962,...
