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2000.04.56Description
b/w game photo, Lucky Lager slowpitch team. From left to right, Ken DeForrest (ss) is in background, Earl Hyder is leaping in the air and throwing the ball, and John Peterson slides into base. Hyder also played for the 1956 national baseball champion Stanley Shoemen.
Earl Hyder started making headlines as an all-city and all-state football player and an all-state baseball player at Lincoln High School.
He continued playing amateur baseball in the area's City, Sunset and Valley leagues for more than a dozen years. Earl was a key component on two teams that won American Amateur Baseball Congress national championships, and on another that finished second.
Earl played centerfield on the 1956 Stanley Shoemen team that became the first club west of the Mississippi River to take the title. He was joined in that outfield by current TPC Hall of Fame members Bob Maguinez and Ron Storaasli, the trio arguably one of the greatest "homegrown" outfields to play baseball in Tacoma. Hyder and Storaasli played at Lincoln High, while Maguinez prepped at Stadium.
In 1960, his two-run homer against Detroit in the title game helped the Cheney Studs take home the trophy. He had 11 hits in 20 at-bats during the series, a .550 average, and he earned All-America honors that year. Sandwiched in between the title years was a second-place finish with the Woodworth Contractor's in 1958.Lexicon
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