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Gerald L. Schrock

Gerald L. Schrock

  • Class Year:
    1963
  • Induction Year:
    1976
  • Sport(s):
    Football, Basketball and Baseball

Gerald "Jerry" Schrock '63 graduated from BW in 1963 and was inducted into the Alumni Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 1976.

One of the most gifted and versatile athletes ever to attend Baldwin-Wallace.  Jerry is the youngest member to enter the Hall of Fame.  A three-sport man, he earned three letters in football and four each in basketball and baseball.

An offensive and defensive end in football, he was All-Ohio Athletic Conference during the 1961-62 season, All-Ohio in 1961 and was selected on the 1963 Little All-American Methodist College football team.

Jerry was named co-captain of the B-W basketball team during his senior year, following a tremendous junior season that earned him most valuable player recognition.  His four-year total of 1,048 points places him 35th overall in scoring at Baldwin-Wallace.

Baseball was the Fremont native's outstanding sport, receiving All-Ohio honors in 1962 and 1963, the same year he was designated B-W's most valuable player.  Noted for his "Eastland Road Home Runs" to right field, the B-W first-baseman spent the summers of 1963 and '64 as a professional baseball player in the Cleveland Indians farm system.

A member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, Jerry completed studies on his masters degree in 1968 from Boston University.  He was a teacher and coach at Chelmsford High School in Chelmsford, Mass., his 13-yeah coaching career was highlighted in 1968 when he was named Massachusetts High School Wrestling Coach-of-the-Year after guiding his team to a state championship.

He is married to the former Carol Shute '64, B-W's 1963 May Queen, and they have three children: James, Christopher, and Kimberly Ann.