Minerva Local School District

Jeff Wallace - 2005

Football, Basketball and Baseball Player

MHS 1995 Graduate

Football

• First Team NBC

• First Team WHBC

• All-Stark County

• All-NE Ohio Inland

• Rushed for over 1000 yards and 17 touchdowns

Basketball

• Member of 20-0 Running Lions Team

• Second Team NBC

Baseball

• First Team NBC

• First Team Stark County

1995 - Selected Cliff Draher Award Winner for the Most Outstanding Senior Male Athlete
Professional Baseball

• Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in 1995

• Traded to Pittsburgh Pirates in 1996 and spent three years there

• On August 20, 1997, he made his Major League debut as a Pitcher

• On his second outing, he struck-out Barry Bonds of San Francisco

• He finished his career with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and the Boston Red Sox