Dick Grissom

 

Manager

 

Inducted 2003

 

Dick Grissom managed only one team (Hillegass Lighting) from 1962 through 1980.  Dick’s team won twenty-five local tournaments with thirty-two second place finishes.  In league play, his team won the title ten times, with three second-place finishes.  They also won one Metro tournament and played in four Regional tournaments and one National tournament.  He had a lifetime winning percentage of eighty-one percent.  Dick was a great defensive and disciplinary manager.  He built good teams with good players.  He never built a team around a great player.  In addition, Dick served TVASA as a member of the Player Advisory Board for three years, the Commissioners’ Council for three years and as President in 1980.

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