Courtesy of RedWingsBaseball.com
ROCHESTER, NY – Former Red Wings Jason Bartlett, Merv Rettenmund and Ron Shelton have been elected as the 2016 Class to the Rochester Red Wings Hall of Fame.
The three will be enshrined into the Red Wings Hall of Fame in a pre-game ceremony on Friday, August 12 prior to the Wings’ game against the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders (Yankees). All three are tentatively scheduled to be in attendance.
Jason Bartlett – Bartlett was steady with Rochester, hitting a combined .323 with 137 runs scored, 48 doubles, 12 triples, nine home runs and 82 RBI in 186 games with the Red Wings from 2004-06. Bartlett played his final game in Rochester in June, 2006 and helped both the Wings and Twins make the postseason that year. He was an All-Star with Tampa Bay in 2008 and played 10 Major League seasons with the Twins, Rays and Padres.
Merv Rettenmund – Rettenmund became sixth Red Wings player (seventh time) to be named International League Most Valuable Player after batting .331 with 22 homers and 59 RBI in 1968. Rochester was his final minor league stop, embarking on a 13-year Major League career with four teams (Baltimore, Cincinnati, San Diego and California) and playing over 1,000 MLB games.
Ron Shelton – Shelton played his final two professional seasons in Rochester and while he only appeared in 79 games in 1970-71, he chronicled the ‘71 season with the Red Wings and turned those stories into a movie, Bull Durham. He wrote and directed the 1988 film about Minor League Baseball with the Durham Bulls when the team was in the Single-A Carolina League.
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