Barry Shollenberger

Shollenberger was born in Pennsylvania in 1941. During the 1950s, Shollenberger attended Reading High School and began his baseball career there.{{cite news |last1=Meixell |first1=Ted |title=A L.V. connection at Alabama |work=The Morning Call |date=May 25, 1986 |page=C3}} With the Reading Red Knights, Shollenberger was a pitcher in the East Penn League from 1957 to 1959.{{cite news |title=P-burg Bows To Reading |work=Sunday Call-Chronicle |date=April 28, 1957 |location=Allentown, Pennsylvania |page=50}}{{cite news |title=Reading Jolts Canaries From First Place, 5-0 |work=The Morning Call |date=May 2, 1959 |page=15}}

At the end of the 1950s, Shollenberger was part of the American Legion Baseball league with Berks County and Pulaski.{{cite news |title=Schuylkill County Legion Stars Beat Berks Nine, 4-2 |work=Evening Herald |date=July 8, 1958 |location=Shenandoah, Pennsylvania |page=Ten}} While in the American Legion, Shollenberger pitched in the 1959 All-Star game for Pennsylvanian teams and was named one of the Most Valuable Players after the event.{{cite news |last1=Fisher |first1=Bill |title=West Nips East |work=The Sunday News |date=August 30, 1959 |location=Lancaster, Pennsylvania |page=34}}

In 1965, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1965 from Moravian College. He later attended the University of Tampa in the 1960s as a graduate student. In the 1970s, Shollenberger completed a Master of Arts at Western Kentucky University and a Doctor of Education at the University of Alabama.{{cite press release |author= |title=1979 Western Kentucky University Hilltopper Baseball |url=https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2857&context=dlsc_ua_records |publisher=WKU Athletic Media Relations |date=1979 |page=3 |access-date=November 14, 2021}}

In 1960, Shollenberger joined the Mitchell Kernels as part of the Basin League.{{cite news |title=Kernels Sign Manager; Marr Is Only Returnee |work=Argus-Leader |date=June 5, 1960 |page=3D}} For Mitchell, Shollenberger had experience as a left fielder and primarily held the position of relief pitcher.{{cite news |last1=Hastings |first1=Marv |title=Kernels From The Field of Sports |work=The Daily Republic |date=April 13, 1961 |location=Mitchell, South Dakota |page=Ten}} In 1961, Shollenberger continued his semi-professional in the Basin League when he became part of the Sturgis Titans.{{cite news |last1=McCarron |first1=Joe |title=Inside Stuff |work=The Morning Call |date=June 14, 1961 |page=30}} While with Sturgis, Shollenberger was a pitcher while also serving as a one-game replacement umpire.{{cite news |last1=Herdien |first1=Bob |title=Basin League Is Proving Grounds |work=Waterloo Daily Courier |date=June 22, 1962 |page=Thirteen}}{{cite news |title=Bill Haywood, Shollenberger Become Umps |work=The Daily Plainsman |date=August 3, 1961 |location=Huron, South Dakota |page=Seven}} During these two years, Shollenberger pitched for Moravian College. With Moravian, Shollenberger and the team won the Middle Atlantic Conference in 1960.{{cite web |title=1960 MAC Champion Baseball Team to be Honored on April 18 |url=https://www.moraviansports.com/sports/bsb/2014-15/releases/20150417zpfcat |website=Moravian University |access-date=November 14, 2021 |date=April 17, 2015}}

Shollenberger began his minor league baseball career as a pitcher in 1961. He started with the Waterloo Hawks before moving to the Rocky Mount Leafs and Tampa Tarpons in the 1960s. He was selected by the Cincinnati Reds in the First-Year Player Draft on November 26, {{mlby|1962}} after going 16–5 with 226 strikeouts in 185 innings with the Hawks.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bnQhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3YgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1947%2C4409771 "Majors Pay Draft High Of $695G," The Associated Press (AP), Tuesday, November 27, 1962.] Retrieved February 27, 2023. After tendinopathy forced Shollenberger to end his pitching career in 1965, he had a career total of seventeen wins and fifteen losses.{{cite news |title=It's like coming home |work=Anniston Star |date=8 June 1979 |page=4B}}

At Brewster Technical High School in 1965, Shollenberger worked for their baseball team as an assistant coach.{{cite news |title=Rams Surprised, But Pleasantly |work=The Tampa Times |date=September 18, 1965 |page=11}} The following year, Shollenberger began coaching the baseball team at Brewster.{{cite news |last1=Kirby |first1=Bill |title=Winning Is Fun |work=The Tampa Tribune |date=March 22, 1966 |page=1-C}} In 1967, he won the Tampa Bay Conference Baseball Tournament with Brewster.{{cite news |title=Brewster Gets Sharp Pitching |work=The Tampa Times |date=April 15, 1967 |page=14}} In additional coaching positions, Shollenberger was in charge of the backfield for the football team and led a basketball team during the 1960s.{{cite news |last1=Bloodworth |first1=Bob |title=Three More Schools Making Tardy Starts |work=The Tampa Times |date=September 21, 1966 |page=14}}{{cite news |last1=Genovese |first1=Chico |title=Break Up the Rams! |work=The Tampa Times |date=April 19, 1967 |page=16}}

In 1969, Brewster Tech was succeeded by Tampa Bay Vocational-Technical School.{{cite news |title=New School For Hillsborough |work=The Tampa Tribune |date=September 3, 1969 |page=2-B}} With Tampa Bay Tech's football team, Shollenberger was in charge of the defensive team and worked as an assistant coach by the end of 1970. That year, he was chosen to become their football coach.{{cite news |last1=Croft |first1=Tom |title=Thompson leaving grid post at Tech |work=Tampa Times |date=3 December 1970 |page=13-C}} By 1971, he had become their baseball coach.{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Jeff |title=Lazzara wins as MVP |work=The Tampa Times |date=May 3, 1971 |page=2-C}} The following year, his football team were one of the winners of the Tampa Bay Conference.{{cite news |title=The TBC Co-Champs |work=The Tampa Tribune |date=January 18, 1972 |page=5-C}} In June 1973, Shollenberger ended his coaching positions with Tampa Bay Tech.{{cite news |title=Shollenberger Leaves Titans |work=Tampa Tribune |date=1 June 1973 |page=10C}}

In 1974, Shollenberger went to the University of Alabama to become an assistant baseball coach. He stayed as assistant coach until 1976 when he resumed his head coach career with the Middle Georgia Junior College baseball team. After the 1976 season, Shollenberger obtained a head baseball coach position with Western Kentucky University in 1977 and stayed as their head coach until 1979.{{cite book |last1=Harrison |first1=Lowell H. |title=Western Kentucky University |date=1987 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=0813116201 |page=228 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zL4eBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA228 |accessdate=8 January 2019}} With the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers baseball team, Shollenberger reached the final of the 1978 playoffs held by the Ohio Valley Conference.{{cite news |title=Western baseballers bow in OVC title game |work=Daily News |date=May 7, 1978 |location=Bowling Green, Kentucky |page=23-A}} He had 77 wins, 64 losses and 3 ties with Western Kentucky.{{cite web |title=Hilltopper Baseball 2020 Media Guide |url=https://wkusports.com/documents/2020/2/13/2020_Media_Guide.pdf |website=Western Kentucky University |accessdate=October 9, 2020 |page=107 |date=February 3, 2020}}

Shollenberger joined the Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team as their baseball coach in June 1979.{{cite news |last1=Hanes |first1=Clark |title=Bama bound |work=The Park City Daily News |date=June 12, 1979 |page=6}} He made his debut as Alabama's coach in February 1980.{{cite news |title=Tide baseballers open with 9-5 win |work=The Montgomery Advertiser and Alabama Journal |date=February 23, 1980 |page=3B}} With Alabama, Shollenberger and his team won the 1983 Southeastern Conference baseball tournament.{{cite news |last1=Bliss |first1=Ron |title=Tide earns SEC title |work=The Advertiser |date=May 17, 1983 |location=Montgomery, Alabama |page=1B}} That year, Shollenberger's players appeared in the championship game of the 1983 College World Series.{{cite news |last1=Lanier |first1=Jim |title=Bittersweet finish for Crimson Tide |work=Birmingham Post-Herald |date=June 13, 1983 |page=B5}} Shollenberger remained with Alabama until he left the team in 1994.{{cite news |title=UA tabs former LSU assistant |work=The Anniston Star |agency=Associated Press |date=June 4, 1994 |page=4B}} Before leaving the team, Shollenberger had an overall record of 487 wins, 334 losses and 1 tie.{{cite news |title=LSU wary before tourney starts up |work=Enterprise-Journal |date=18 May 1994 |page=6}}

While with the Hawks, Shollenberger received the Midwest League Top MLB Prospect Award in 1962.{{cite web |title=Midwest League Award Winners |url=https://www.milb.com/midwest/history/award-winners |website=Minor League Baseball |access-date=December 31, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126112524/https://www.milb.com/midwest/history/award-winners |archive-date=January 26, 2022}} In 1978, he was the Coach of the Year for the Ohio Valley Conference while at Western Kentucky.{{cite news |title=WKU baseball coach is honored by OVC as 'coach of the year' |work=The Franklin Favorite |date=May 18, 1978 |page=A-4}} With Alabama, Shollenberger was the 1983 Southeastern Conference Baseball Coach of the Year.{{cite news |title=State lands four on SEC teams; Alabama takes overall trophy |work=The Greenwood Commonwealth |agency=Associated Press |date=May 23, 1983 |page=6}} That year, he was the Baseball America College Coach of the Year.{{cite web |title=Baseball America Awards |website=Baseball America |url=https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/baseball-america-awards/ |accessdate=8 January 2019 |date=20 July 2016}} He also became part of a hall of fame for Moravian.{{cite web |title=Moravian University Hall of Fame Inductees |website=Moravian University |url=https://www.moraviansports.com/information/HOF/Inductees |access-date=November 14, 2012}}

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