 March 26, 2008ST. LOUIS, MO. – University of Missouri-St. Louis baseball coach Jim Brady will be inducted into the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame this Saturday evening at the St. Louis Airport Marriott.
Brady is one of 15 coaches, former players or umpires in this year’s induction class and was a unanimous selection as voted on by the Hall of Fame Board of Directors.
Brady, who is in his 23rd season at the head of the Tritons program, has a career record of 625-416-6. Entering the 2008 season, he was ranked 16th among NCAA Division II active coaches for the most career wins (618) and was 32nd among Division II active coaches in career winning percentage (.605). He also ranks 40th all-time in career victories.
UMSL has had a winning season for all but three seasons that Brady has been the head coach. His teams have had 30 or more wins in 11 of the last 13 seasons, including a school-record of 39-15 record in 2003. In that historic 2003 season, Brady led UMSL to a first place regular season finish in the Great Lakes Valley Conference and also won the GLVC Tournament, recording UMSL’s first ever conference title since joining the GLVC. The Tritons also earned a bid to the NCAA Regionals, the first trip to the regionals since the 1998 season.
The 1998 team finished with a 32-15 record and a bid to the NCAA Regional. In 1996, Brady guided the Tritons to a then school record 37-9 record, a first-place conference regular season finish, an NCAA Regional title and a birth in the Division II College World Series. In addition, Brady also led UMSL to back-to-back NCAA Regional appearances in 1992 and 1993. In 1993, Brady guided the team to its first appearance in the Division II College World Series since the 1977 season, and it’s first during his tenure.
During his tenure at UMSL, Brady has coached 13 All-American players, 54 all-regional players and 85 all-conference players in either the MIAA or the GLVC. He has also coached five players who earned All-Conference and All-Region Player or Pitcher of the Year, and one Conference Freshman of the Year. Brady has been awarded with the Central Region Coach of the Year Award twice, in 1993 and again in 1996.
In addition to his coaching duties at UMSL, Brady has served as an assistant coach at the U.S. Olympic National Baseball trials in 1992, and was honored by the Multiple Sclerosis Society for excellence in coaching in 1994.
Prior to being named the head coach, he assumed the pitching coach duties at UM-St. Louis in 1984 under former head coach Jim Dix. That year, Brady guided UMSL to a league-leading ERA as a team.
Before arriving at UMSL, Brady served as a teacher and assistant baseball and football coach at Parkway South High School for five years. He has also served as an assistant coach at Missouri State and helped guide the Bears to back-to-back post-season appearances in 1977 and 1978.
Brady played collegiate baseball at nearby Meramec Community College, and later went on to play at Division I Missouri State University in Springfield, Mo.
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