Jim Stankowski, Sr. - MCSHOF Inductee - 2025

Jim Stankowski, Sr. was a standout baseball and fastpitch softball player while in high school. He began playing fastpitch softball at age 15 at the shortstop position. He began pitching that same year and continued as a pitcher/manager until 1993. Stankowski was a part of the 1975 Class C and 1976 Class B ASA State Championship teams, the 1978 Class A State Runner up and Great Lakes Regional team and played in the National Finals-Class A in Nashville, Tennessee. In 1988 Stankowski’s team was the Class State Champion and participated in the National finals in Las Cruses, New Mexico. In 1990 and 1991 Stankowski and his team were sISC State Champion and played in the 1990 World Tourney in Victoria, British Columbia and in 1991 in Sioux City, Iowa. Also in 1990, Stankowski was the manager of Schoenherr Investments and won the Class A championship and played in the National Tournament in Sacramento, California. Stankowski was inducted in 2005 to the State of Michigan Softball Hall of Fame as a coach and in 1991 to the Mason County Softball Hall of Fame.