New Ulm HALL OF FAME Member

James (Jim) Hoffmann

Manager-Outfielder-Director

Selected 1993

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          Jim Hoffman has the kind of credentials which made him an obvious selection to the New Ulm Baseball Hall of Fame in either one of the two categories for honorees. Although he was selected as an outstanding player, but he could also have easily been considered as a non-player because of his team managing, board participation, and other baseball activities.         

          As a player, Hoffmann played 10 total years divided into two tenures --- with the Millers from 1951 through 1955 and with the Brewers from 1959 through 1963.  He managed in 1962 and 1963.

          In 176 career games, he wound up with a lifetime .289 average and had five seasons in which he hit over .300, including his two best years when he averaged .342 and .344 in 1962 and 1963.  He ended his career with an even 200 hits, five of those homers and six for triples.

          He retired as a manager after a bitter 1963 season in which the state board took away an undefeated record over a Glen Stabelfeld protest and turned his part of the season into a 2-10 record.

          Hoffmann later served as the president of the Association and as a board member, after those years as the Brewers' manager in the turbulent early '60's. He also served as a committee chair for the 50^th anniversary of Johnson Park, and he currently is the president of the New Ulm Amateur Hall of Fame committee.

          Jim played three years of New Ulm High School baseball with a career .272 average, and he also spent three years with the New Ulm American Legion team with a .327 career average.