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Todd Eagle

Todd Eagle: Giants Slugger ... High School All Star with a Dream ... Pro

Todd scored 22 runs and drove in 35 while hitting .447 to lead the 1993 Giants to its undefeated season -- only the third in league history.

Then he got better.

As an Albany High School junior, Todd stroked five home runs and hit .538 to win the league batting championship and lead the Cougars back into the league play offs for the first time in seven years.

In June, 1999, became the first player since Angelo Gilbert (1980) to sign a professional baseball contract during his senior year at Albany High School.

Kamau Edwards

Kamau Edwards page.

Kamau Edwards: 1986 Cubs pictures, 1993 newspapger clippings with statistics and Prep of the Week article.

As a 10 year old, contributed five doubles toward the Cubs' championship run. As an 11, charged the Cubs to a 17-3 championship and started all four All Star games in left field. As a 12, led the league in home runs.

As a varsity outfielder at St.Mary's, played on three league championship teams. As a Senior, led the league in hitting (.531) and rbi's (23) and was named to the All East Bay honorary all star team.

Graduated from UCLA in June 1998.

Tammy Holmes

TAMMY HOLMES

'86 Little League Cubs to '96 Colorado Silver Bullets

Cubs Emerg from Cellar to Win Major Division Pennant.

Albany, CA. (June 25, 1986) -- After finishing the first half season in last place, the Cubs ended their season with a nine game winning burst that climaxed with back to back shellackings of the Giants, 17-6 and 13-1, in the championship playoff.

Tammy Holmes (12) hit cleanup and started the first championship game on the mound. In the 2^nd game, she started at catcher and finished at shortstop.

During the streak, she pitched 22 innings and allowed only 20 baseruners (10 hits,10 walks). For the season, she hit .369 and slugged .507 with five doubles and two triples.

Tammy was one of the nine players named to the 1986 All Star team by vote of the players.

Cal Rookie Blasts Historic Home Run.

Grand Slam Sparks Comeback Win

SF Chronicle (May 15, 1996) -- For you juiced-ball theorists, there may be more evidence. Rookie leftfielder, Tammy Holmes, a current Cal student, got hold of a high fastball and clouted the first home run in the three-year history of the Colorado Silver Bullets, the all-women's baseball team that plays all-male teams.

Her bases loaded drive in the top of the 9^th traveled about 380 feet at the University of Georgia's Foley Field. Trailing the Atlanta Mustangs 11-4 going into the ninth, the Silver Bullets staged a huge rally, tied the score on Holmes' grand slam and completed a 10-run inning for a dramatic 14-11 win.

Until Holmes unloaded, the Bullets had not homered in 103 games and 3,055 plate appearances.

The weird part is that Holmes, 21, was playing only the fifth baseball game of her life, not counting Little League. She was a high school All American in volleyball, and she played center on Berkeley High's California Division I state champion basketball team -- but no baseball or softball.

"Their outfielders were disrespecting us," Holmes told the Chronicle. "I just wanted to put the ball in play."

"Actually, I was happier that we came back to win than I was about the home run."

League landmarks.

In 1998, White Sox outfielder/catcher MERYL PHILLIPS became the second girl (after Tammy) to impact a championship game. She hit a lead off triple, then scored the only run for a Sox victory, 1-0, over the Giants for the first half season championship.

Tammy and Meryl met in June '98 (at left) just before Tammy left for spring training.

Kweli Washington


Came of age as a 10-yr-old hitter in championship playoffs with four singles, three doubles, and five rbi's. Hit five for five in final game.	As 11-yr-old All Star centerfielder, hit .379 and drove in nine of team's 26 runs. On last at bat, drove ball into tree tops beyond right center field fence at Concord American.	"I stand on the shoulders of giants: My immediate loved ones, and people throughout the ages." -- upon winning the Rhodes Scholarship.

Mike Kostainsek

Mike Kostainsek: Anchor of Champions

Mike played three years for average Braves clubs while powerhouse Giants and Cubs teams won championships in '81, '82, and '83. But five years after Little League, Mike enjoyed his own three year championship run at Albany High School.

In '88, '89, and '90, Mike caught every game for Cougar teams that won their league pennants and advanced to the North Coast Section playoffs.

His triple and four home runs in back-to-back games against St. Mary's and Piedmont in 1989 won Mike the Oakland Tribune Prep of the Week award. After leading the Cougars to their third straight championship, Mike was selected 1990 League Player of the Year.

Kevin Tanahill

Kevin Tannahill

Kevin played all positions well from Little League into high school.

In his sophomore year at Albany High, Kevin found his baseball home -- catcher. That year he hit .400 and led the team in rbi's. His junior year, he hit .500 and led the underdog Cougars into the playoffs. His senior year, he was named conference Player of the Year.

Kevin caught for Laney College out of high school and was named All Conference.

At San Jose State, Kevin was elected captain of the baseball team and was honored by the NCAA as an Academic All American.

A shoulder injury first suffered in college brought Kevin's professional baseball career to a close after two seasons in the minor leagues.