OKLAHOMA CITY (Feb. 6, 2019) – Oklahoma Christian assistant baseball coach
Mickey Tettleton will be one of seven inductees into the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame in 2019, it was revealed Wednesday.
Tettleton will join fellow former Major League Baseball star Mike Moore, former Oklahoma football coach Bob Stoops, former NFL standout Will Shields, Olympic gold-medal winning wrestler Kendall Cross, former New Mexico State and Illinois basketball coach Lou Henson and current Oklahoma softball coach Patty Gasso in the induction class, which will be formally introduced during a luncheon on Feb. 19 at the Jeaneen and Bob Naifeh Family & Bud Wilkinson Event Center in Oklahoma City.
Membership in the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame is considered one of the state's highest athletic honors. OC has one representative in the Hall – former track and field standout and current assistant coach
Jeff Bennett, who was inducted in 2017.
Tettleton joined OC's coaching staff last month and works primarily with the Eagles' catchers and hitters.
Tettleton, 58, grew up in Oklahoma City and attended Southeast High School, the same school as former New York Yankees great Bobby Murcer, for whom OC's Bobby Murcer Indoor Training Facility is named. Tettleton played collegiately at Oklahoma State, helping the Cowboys reach the 1981 College World Series title game, before being drafted in the fifth round by the Oakland A's in 1981.
He broke into the big leagues in 1984 and retired from pro baseball in 1997 after a career that included stints with the A's, Baltimore Orioles, Detroit Tigers and Texas Rangers. He was an MLB All-Star in 1989 (with the Orioles) and 1994 (with the Tigers) and won the Silver Slugger Award – awarded annually to each league's best offensive player at each position – in 1989, 1991 and 1992.
Predominantly a catcher who also saw time in right field and at first base, Tettleton posted a .241 career batting average in the big leagues, with 245 home runs, 732 RBI and 1,485 hits.
The induction dinner for the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame will be in August.
