The New Bloomfield High School baseball program and its longtime coach, the late Rod Haley, will be inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame next month in Springfield.
Haley - who died in March 2015 - turned New Bloomfield into a perennial power from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. The Wildcats won six Class 1 state championships during that span (1986, '89, '91, '92, '93 and '96), finished third in 1985 and '87, tied for third in '95, and placed fourth in 1988.
Haley compiled a 409-105 career record at New Bloomfield, an 80-percent winning percentage that is fourth-best in state history. He was inducted into the Missouri State High School Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame in 1998.
The Wildcats also captured a Class 2 state title under Brandon Talbot in 2011 and were the Class 2 state runners-up under Justin Forsythe in 2015.
Also to be inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame will be:
former St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Vince Coleman;
former Kansas City Royals outfielder Amos Otis;
former Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Bill Kenney;
Missouri football and basketball radio play-by-play man Mike Kelly;
Houston Astros owner Jim Crane, who played baseball at Central Missouri;
former Missouri football head coach Warren Powers;
Missouri State volleyball coach Melissa Stokes;
Missouri head trainer Rex Sharp;
B.A.S.S. champion Rick Clunn;
motocross champion Jeff Emig;
former Missouri state basketball player Kelby Stuckey;
Missouri State radio play-by-plan man Art Hains;
NFL official George Hayward;
Berkeley High School head track and field coach Rod Staggs;
Hamilton-Penney head football coach David Fairchild;
Glendale soccer coach Jeff Rogers;
the University of Central Missouri baseball program.
Induction activities will begin with a reception at the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame at 11 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 29. A second reception will be at 4 p.m. at the University Plaza Convention Center, with the dinner and enshrinement to follow at 5.
For more information, go to MoSportsHallofFame.com.