LONG INDUCTED INTO TEXAS COACHES HALL OF FAME

The winningest coach in Brenham Cubs baseball history is now a member of the Texas Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

Coach Jim Long was inducted into the Hall at the Coaches Association Annual Banquet this weekend in Waco.

In seventeen season at the helm of the Cubs’ program, Long won 477 games, while leading the team to the playoffs every year.

The Cubs won 11 District Championships, advanced to the State Tournament five times—in 1999, 2003, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

The Cubs won the State Championship in 2010—their first in 22 years.

Long also served as president of the Coaches Association.

The Hall of Fame is housed at the Visitiors’ Center at Blue Bell Creamery in Brenham.

Also inducted this weekend was Coach Rudy Alvarez, the long-time coach at Austin Travis and Austin-Bowie.

Alvarez was a standout second baseman in 1968 and 1969 for the Blinn Buccaneers under coach Leroy Dreyer.