2025 Goodrich/FDL HS Athletic Hall of Fame Inductee – Jim Kalk ’62 Goodrich Grad

2025 Goodrich/FDL HS Athletic Hall of Fame Inductee – Jim Kalk ’62 Goodrich Grad

Jim Kalk 1962 Goodrich Grad

8 Varsity letters

2 Football – starting RB both years  

1961 Honorable Mention  FRVC DB

2 Basketball    starting guard both years

4 Baseball  (Only 4 year letter winner in Fond du Lac Baseball history)

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Baseball

Frosh year

*   5-0 record / FDL won the FRVC championship

*   Winning pitcher in State 4 semi-final game (5-3)

*   Spring 1959 HS & Legion 6-0 Record  81 K’s / 46 innings / 21 hit.    

*  FDL won the Legion State Championship

Soph year

*   HS  3 – 3 record / team 4-8

*   * Legion 8-2 record / team 11-3

Averaged close to 2 K’s per inning

Jr year

*   HS 7-5 record / team 14-6

*   Legion 8-2 record  – team lost in State semi-final

Sr year

*   HS  8-2 record

* Pitched 3 No-hitters & pitched a perfect game striking out 19 in a WIAA tourney game – he had a career batting ave. over .300

*   Legion 8-3 record / team 13

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Overall HS record  23 – 7  / Legion  30 – 7

Legion – 27 straight strike outs in one game and then struck out 25 in his next game

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Jim was selected as a Badger Boys Rep for Goodrich HS

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Post High School

 Scholarship – full ride at University of New Mexico

*   set strikeout record / 18 K’s in one game

*   Bachelor of Arts degree in English

*   Attended UW-Madison & UW-Oshkosh pursuing a Masters in Special Ed

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Basin League (1953-73)  (Independent feeder system for the majors) 

Jim struck out Hall of Fame Reggie Jackson 3 times in 1 game In the same game that Jim struck out Reggie Jackson 3 times, he also struck out Sal Bando and Rick Monday.

He also played iwith Jim Palmer & Merv Rettenmund.

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