Bob Foor

For many years, Bob Foor was the face of Everett baseball. He will join his  father, "Shrimp" Foor, as the first father/son combination in the Bedford County Sports Hall of Fame.

Foor learned the game of baseball in the sandlots of Everett, beginning when he was seven. His father was the manager and a player for the Everett Legion baseball team that played in the Tri-State and Bi-State league. Bob and his brother Gary would go to the games, shag balls in Wednesday evening practices, and occasionally get to take batting practice.

Since there was no Little League, Pony or Teener leagues, they got their first exposure to playing when Bob was 11 and the team went to Mount Union with only eight players. The young Foor boys were drafted and the team won the game with Bob and Gary each playing half the game. 

As a high school athlete, Bob excelled as he lettered all four years in baseball, was all-county his senior year and averaged over 20 points per game in basketball, and played two years of football, making the all-county team as  an end his senior year. He was voted the "Best Athlete" his senior year. 

Despite his success in other sports, baseball was Bob's best sport.

When he was 14, his father started the American Junior Legion baseball team. Bob played from 1954 to 1958, with the team participating in the Blair-Bedford League. In his last year, Bob became the first Bedford County player to make the American Junior Legion All-Star team. The Western Final took place in Pittsburgh at Forbes Field and the East-West game was in Allentown.

Also that year, he played in the prestigious National Amateur Baseball Federation Tournament for Altoona, which was the host city. With the games being played on the old Cricket Field, Bob roamed center field and played with  Galen Hall of Williamsburg, who went on to be the head football coach at the University of Florida and is currently an assistant at Penn State.

He regularly played adult baseball for the Chaneysville team of the Bedford County League (BCL) from 1954-56; for Everett of the BCL, Huntingdon League, and Pen-Mar League; and for Woodbury in 1960-61 in the Blair County Twi-Light League.

From 1958 to 1962 he attended Lycoming College in Williamsport and majored in biology. He played four years of basketball and averaged 10 points a game his senior year. He was also a stellar hitter for the baseball team, hitting between .300 and .400 all four years. The San Francisco Giants offered to sign him and his roommate Luke Kauffman after their junior years for a small bonus, but both elected to retum to school. 

After Bob graduated from college, he signed with the Minnesota Twins and played in Wytheville, Va., in the Appalachian League. He played his first game against Salem, Va., a team that had Hyndman's Vaughn Lehman on the team as a pitcher.

In 1962, Bob got a teaching job at William Tennet High School in Bucks County, but came back to Everett to teach biology and coach baseball for the next 37 years.

He also got a masters Degree in Biology from the University of South Dakota in 1968 after doing some graduate work at North Carolina State, Drake, and Aspen, Colorado, with San Diego State.

Over his baseball coaching career, he amassed a record of 371 wins and 255 losses with 10 Bedford County League titles, four Sideling Hill League titles, and three District 5 titles.

He also was the Everett Teener League coach and head coach for the Everett varsity basketball team. As an assistant coach in football in 1966, the Warriors won the Western Conference Championship.

He retired from teaching and coaching baseball in 2001. 

Bob is married to the former Judith "Chic" Bloom and they have two daughters. Lisa Rojek lives in Wilmington, N.C., while Jennifer Moore lives in St. Charles, Ill. They have two granddaughters: Helena Rojek and Olivia Moore.



--------------------

Class of 2007
Bedford County Sports Hall of Fame
Bedford County, Pennsylvania
Class of 2007
Class of 2006

Bedford County Sports
Hall of Fame