National Baseball

Hall of Fame Inductee

Robin Yount

La Salle High School 

It is with great excitement that we announce Robin Yount as our 35th Annual La Salle Sports Stag featured guest. Robin Yount, nicknamed, "The Kid", and "Rockin' Robin" spent his entire 20-year career in Major League Baseball as a shortstop and center fielder for the Milwaukee Brewers (1974–93).

After growing up in California, Yount spent a couple of months in minor league baseball and advanced to the major leagues at the age of 18. He won two American League Most Valuable Player awards. In his best season, 1982, the Brewers made a World Series appearance. In 1999, Yount was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. Since his retirement as a player, Yount has held several roles as a baseball coach.

Yount was the third pick overall in the June 1973 Major League Baseball draft, one slot ahead of fellow Hall of Famer and 3,000 Hit Club member Dave Winfield. Yount made his major league debut the following April, at eighteen years old. After going hitless in his first four games, Yount hit a game-winning home run in his sixth. Yount is currently the last 18-year-old to hit a home run in the Major Leagues (Andruw Jones and Bryce Harper are the two most current teenagers to have hit Major League home runs, but did so as 19-year-olds). On September 14, 1975 (two days before his 20th birthday), Yount broke Mel Ott's 47-year-old record for most games played in the major leagues before turning 20.

Yount courted controversy in the winter of 1978. He threatened to retire from the game and take up professional golf rather than be underpaid or moved to the outfield by the Brewers. Early in the season, Paul Molitor was called up from the Brewers Class A affiliate to the major league team because of Yount's absence. Yount's demands were met; when he returned to the team, Molitor was moved from shortstop to second base to make room for Yount.[3]

He was an early proponent of weight training – then uncommon in baseball – and by 1980 Yount's power hitting had improved, particularly for a shortstop. Yount was an All-Star in 1980, 1982, and 1983. No other Brewer was voted a starter in consecutive years until Ryan Braun started each year between 2008 and 2011.

The La Salle High School Sport Stag is recognized as one of the best Sports Stags in the country. The guest speakers over the years have been a “who’s who” of sports figures and most recently baseball greats. Of the 66 Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees that are still living 9 have been the guest speaker at the La Salle Sports Stag. This special event has generated over a $1.0 million for various needs of the school. This past January, we invited National Hall of Fame Inductee Rollie Fingers who entertained the crowd like never before. 

The Sports Stag would not be successful without the commitment and dedication of a strong group of volunteers. From its earliest inception, the volunteers have built and developed the La Salle Sports Stag into a fun-filled evening that brings our La Salle community together in a spirit of enjoyment and support for the school.

Best Stag in the Country!

36th Annual La Salle Sports Stag
DATE: January 2019
Featuring: TBD 

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