Major League Baseball pitcher Todd Stottlemyre and softball player Angie Crawford (née Pleasant) will be inducted into the Davis Athletics Hall of Fame at Saturday night’s basketball games vs. Eisenhower.
Stottlemyre started the Pirates’ semifinal win on their way to a second-place finish at the 4A state tournament in 1983 before the New York Yankees drafted him with a fifth-round selection, but he chose to play for two seasons at Yakima Valley College. Stottlemyre turned down a first-round pick in the January 1985 draft from the St. Louis Cardinals before eventually signing with the Toronto Blue Jays as the third pick of the June 1985 draft.
The righthander who also earned all-CBBN honors for the Pirates’ basketball team that finished third at state in 1982 reached the big leagues in 1988 and played 14 seasons for five teams — the Blue Jays, Oakland Athletics, Cardinals, Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks — before retiring in 2002 at the age of 37. Stottlemyre finished his career with a 4.28 ERA and 1,587 strikeouts, and he won World Series titles with Toronto in 1992 and 1993.
Crawford excelled in volleyball, basketball and track and field before graduating from Davis in 1986. As a senior, she was captain for the volleyball team, earned all-state basketball honors by averaging 18 points, five rebounds, four steals and four assists per game, and took second place at state in the shot put with a school record throw of 42 feet.
After high school she accepted a full scholarship to play basketball at Idaho, where she cut her career short to join the US Navy. During a 25-year military career, Crawford averaged 30 points per game on the All-Navy basketball teams, winning a championship and MVP honors while also becoming an NCAA Division I women’s basketball official for 15 years.
Pleasant is a cousin of Denise Pleasant, the mother of Milwaukee Bucks forward and Yakima native MarJon Beauchamp.
Athletic director Bob Stanley said neither former Pirate will be able to attend Saturday’s ceremony.
Former Eisenhower standout and longtime youth sports supporter George “Spud” Edmondson who died last month will be honored with a moment of silence.