ELECTED:  NOVEMBER 2006                                  INDUCTED: NOVEMBER 2007

            SCOTTSDALE, AZ                                             DAYTONA BEACH, FL

 

 

 

DOUG ROBERSON OF ROYAL PALM BEACH, FL HAS BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE USSSA HALL OF FAME IN THE MALE PLAYER CATEGORY.

 

DOUG ROBERSON WON HIS FIRST MEN’S MAJOR WORLD SERIES IN 1988 WITH STEELE’S SILVER BULLETS AND THE FOLLOWING YEAR WITH SUPERIOR-APOLLO SOFTBALL.  HE FOLLOWED THAT UP WITH BACK TO BACK WINS IN 1992-1993 WITH RITCH’S SUPERIOR, AND AGAIN WITH TEAM TPS IN 1998.  HE WAS SELECTED TO EHT MEN’S MAJOR ALL-WORLD TEAM IN 1987, 1988, 1989, AND 1996,  AT THE 1986 MEN’S MAJOR WORLD SERIES, PLAYING FOR STEELE’S SPORTS HE RECEIVED THE MR. HUSTLE AWARD.  HE TIED WITH CRAIG ELLIOT FOR MOST HOME RUNS (19) AT THE 1987 WORLD SERIES.  IN WORLD SERIES PLAY HE HAS 311 AT BATS, 158 HITS, 162 RBIs, 156 RUNS, AND 82 HOME RUNS.

 

HIS MOST EXCITING MOMENT CAME DURING THE 1992 MEN’S MAJOR WORLD SERIES:  SUNDAY MORNING IN THE LOSER’S BRACKET, PLAYING 5 STRAIGHT GAMES, DEFEATING WILLIAMS/WORTH FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.

“MY FAMILY CAME ON THE FIELD AND HUGGED ME.  THAT WAS THE ICING ON THE CAKE.”