JAMES GEORGE MORTL

ELECTED: NOVEMBER, 1979

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA

INDUCTED: NOVEMBER 1980

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

JAMES MORTL, THE MOST VALUABLE PLAYER IN THE FIRST UNITED STATES SLO-PITCH SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION WORLD SERIES, WAS THE FIRST MALE PLAYER INDUCTED INTO THE HALL OF FAME.

A NATIVE OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, MORTL WAS A SLICK FIELDING SECOND BASEMAN AND PRESSURE HITTER. HE WAS KNOWN AS A SINGLES AND DOUBLES HITTER WHO COULD GO TO ALL FIELDS WITH ACCURACY.

HE WAS NAMED MOST VALUABLE PLAYER IN THE 1970 WORLD SERIES AT LAS VEGAS, NEVADA WHEN HIS ACCURATE WELDING TEAM OF MILWAUKEE CAPTURED THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP.

MORTL CARRIED A .600 CAREER BATTING AVERAGE AND PLAYED COMPETITIVE SOFTBALL FOR 16 YEARS.

ALONG WITH ACCURATE WELDING, MORTL PLAYED FOR MARASCO’S, TRANSPORT OIL, LIBBY’S THOMA’S AND ASCHES, ALL WISCONSIN TEAMS.

MORTL PLAYED IN EIGHT NATIONAL AND WORLD TOURNAMENTS AND WAS NAMED ALL-STATE, ALL-TOURNAMENT AND ALL-WORLD NUMEROUS TIMES.