10th Region baseball coaches and media members voted to induct ten individuals into the 10th Region Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2025.  Biographies are listed below. The inductees are:

Billy K. Anderson (Nicholas County)
Woodie Fryman (Fleming County)
Cary Barr (Paris)
Matt Ginter (George Rogers Clark)
Nate Jones (Pendleton County)
Dion Newby (Harrison County)
Scott Schweitzer (Campbell County)
Travis Sims (Nicholas County)
Shon Walker (Harrison County)
Mac Whitaker (Harrison County)

These individuals will be recognized at a banquet to be announced later that will coincide with the 10th Region Baseball All-Star Game. 

While the 10th Region basketball alignment was established in 1932, it wasn’t until the 1986 season that baseball was aligned in the same manner with the same schools.  The Hall of Fame encompasses two distinct eras: one before 1986 and the other from 1986 to the present.  Two were selected from the pre-alignment era and eight from the modern era, totaling 10 inductees.  Bylaws, nominations, and selection were done by head baseball coaches and media members who regularly cover high school baseball.

Pre-Alignment Inductees:

Billy K. Anderson graduated from Nicholas County in 1955.  He played baseball at Morehead State University as a pitcher from 1956 to 1960.  He helped the Eagles win the 1957 Ohio Valley Conference Championship.  He started his career at Deming and Williamstown, where he coached for six seasons.  He returned to Nicholas County, where he coached for 33 more years.  He led his teams to 21 appearances in the regional tournament.  His 2000 team was District Champions, 10th Region Champions, and advanced to the state semifinals.  He had 578 career wins as a head coach. He was inducted into the Kentucky High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1997, and the Nicholas County baseball field is named in his honor.  

Woodrow “Woodie” Fryman played for Fleming County High School.  He debuted in the major leagues for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1966 as a left-handed pitcher.  He pitched in the MLB for 22 seasons, appearing in 625 games with 322 starts.  He threw 2,411.1 innings with 1,587 strikeouts.  He was named a National League All-Star in 1968 for the Philadelphia Phillies and in 1976 for the Montreal Expos.  He was inducted into the Montreal Expos Hall of Fame in 1995 and the Kentucky Sports Hall of Fame in 2005.  Fryman was born on April 12, 1940, and passed away on February 4, 2011.  

Modern Era Inductees:

Cary Barr graduated from Paris in 1971, where he played baseball and was named to the All-Central Kentucky Team.  He led his team in batting average in the 1970 season.  He lettered all four years and was a team captain in baseball, football, and basketball.  He went on to play basketball at Transylvania University.  Barr was the head baseball coach at Millersburg Military Institute for seven years and an assistant at Bath County for four.  He began his career at Paris in 1988 as the head baseball coach.  He was the head coach for 31 years from 1988 to 2019. He has served as an assistant coach for the past six years.  He has over 500 career wins and was inducted into the Kentucky High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2014.  The Paris baseball field was renamed “Cary Barr Field” in his honor.

Matt Ginter played baseball at George Rogers Clark, where he graduated in 1996.  He helped the Cardinals to the 10th Region title game in 1994 and 1996.  He was drafted by the New York Yankees in the 17th round of the 1996 MLB Draft, but opted to attend college at Mississippi State.  Ginter played for the Bulldogs for three seasons, from 1997 to 1999, during which he pitched in the College World Series and for Team USA’s national team.  He was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the first round, 22nd pick of the 1999 MLB Draft.  He played in the major leagues for seven seasons, appearing in 232 innings with 132 strikeouts and a 5.43 ERA.  In the minors, he pitched in 263 games and 907.2 innings with 636 strikeouts and a 3.49 ERA.  Ginter coached George Rogers Clark for six seasons from 2012 to 2017.  He had a record of 116-77, won four district championships, and the 2017 10th Region Championship.  He was inducted into the Clark County Public Schools Hall of Fame in 2023.

Nate Jones played baseball for Pendleton County, where he graduated in 2004.  He helped the Wildcats win their last District Championship in 2002.  He went on to play baseball at Northern Kentucky University, which was NCAA Division II at the time.  He played for the Norse for three seasons from 2005 to 2007.  In his last season in 2007, Jones made 16 appearances and pitched 56.1 innings.  He had a 2.88 ERA and struck out 60 batters, holding them to a .185 batting average.  Jones was drafted in the 5th round of the 2007 MLB Draft by the Chicago White Sox with his fastball topping out at 102 mph.  Of his 10 years in the major leagues, he spent eight years with the White Sox from 2012-2019, one season with the Cincinnati Reds in 2020, and split the 2021 season with the Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers.  He received a World Series ring for his time with the Braves during the 2023 regular season and pitched for Team USA’s national team in the 2017 World Baseball Classic, winning a gold medal.  For his major league career, he appeared in 325 games, threw 329 innings, and had a 3.45 ERA with 355 strikeouts.  He was inducted into the Northern Kentucky University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2019 and the Pendleton County Athletics Hall of Fame.  He has been the head baseball coach at Pendleton County for the last two seasons.

Dion Newby played baseball at Harrison County, where he graduated in 1993, winning the Kentucky Mr. Baseball award and Gatorade Player of the Year.  He was also named a Third-Team All-American by the American Baseball Coaches Association.  For his career, he batted .399 with 46 home runs, 36 doubles, and 179 RBIs.  In his senior year, he had a .504 batting average with 13 home runs.  The Thorobreds won regional titles in 1990, 1992, and 1993.  He led Harrison County to their first state championship in 1993 and was named Most Valuable Player of the state semifinals.  He went on to play baseball at Wallace Community College in Alabama for two seasons before finishing his career at Northern Alabama.

Scott Schweitzer played at Campbell County, where he graduated in 1998 and was named to the All-State Team.  He went on to play at Aquinas College in Nashville for two seasons and then at Kentucky Wesleyan College.  In 2002, he was named to the Great Lakes Valley All-Conference First Team as a pitcher and first baseman.  He was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 18th round of the 2002 MLB Draft.  As a left-handed pitcher, he played in the minors for four seasons with 84 innings pitched and a 4.07 ERA.  Coach Schweitzer took over the Campbell County baseball program in 2010.  He is in his 16th year as head coach of the Camels and broke the 300 career win mark this season.  His teams have won seven district championships and four 10th Region Championships in 2016, 2018, 2021, and 2022.  The 2016 team finished as the state runner-up to St. Xavier, losing 1-0 in the title game.

Travis Sims played baseball at Nicholas County, where he graduated in 1992.  He went on to play baseball at Georgetown College from 1993 to 1996.  In the fall of 1997, he began teaching and coaching at Nicholas County.  Sims was an assistant coach on the Bluejackets’ 2000 state semifinalist team under Coach Billy K. Anderson.  He took over as head coach of the Bluejackets in 2002 and coached for 20 years until his death in 2021.  His 2018 team won the 10th Region All “A” Classic for the first time in school history and was 38th District Champions.  His team won the All “A” again in 2021.  For his career, he had over 250 wins.  Travis Sims was born on December 2, 1973, and passed away on July 31, 2021, after an almost two-year battle with brain cancer, which he continued to coach through.  Coach Sims was inducted into the Kentucky High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2022.

Shon Walker played baseball at Harrison County, where he was named Kentucky Mr. Baseball in his senior year in 1992.  For his career, he had a .437 batting average, 52 home runs, 33 doubles, and 193 RBIs.  In his senior year, he batted .565 with 70 hits, 29 home runs, and 76 RBIs. He holds the state record and is third in the nation for most home runs in a season (29).  He is listed in the KHSAA record several times for career and season records in hits, walks, home runs, runs scored, runs batted in, and stolen bases.  The Thorobreds won regional titles in 1989, 1990, and 1992.  He was named a First Team All-American and signed to play baseball at Kentucky.  He ended up being drafted as the 32nd pick in the first round of the 1992 MLB Draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates.  He played seven seasons in the minor leagues with 2,278 plate appearances, a .254 batting average, 484 hits, 343 walks, and 57 home runs.  He was inducted into the Cynthiana-Harrison County Baseball Hall of Fame. 

Mac Whitaker played baseball at Harrison County, where he graduated in 1971.  He went on to play at Morehead State as a walk-on and was later put on scholarship by Coach Sonny Allen.  His first collegiate at-bat was a home run, and he was later named to the Ohio Valley All-Conference Team.  He graduated from Morehead State in 1976 and returned as a teacher and assistant baseball coach under his brother-in-law, Don Snopek, in the 1977 season.  Coach Whitaker took over the program in 1978, marking the beginning of his decorated coaching career with the Thorobreds.  His team was state runner-up in 1984, losing 10-9 on a walk-off home run to East Carter.  They were runners-up again in 1987, losing 10-3 to Owensboro.  Coach Whitaker’s Thorobreds won their first State Championship in 1993 by defeating Pleasure Ridge Park 6-0.  They won back-to-back State Championships in 1997 and 1998, beating North Hardin 9-6 and Boyd County 9-4.  Their latest state title came in 2010 when they defeated Butler 2-0.  Coach Whitaker is in his 47th year leading the Thorobreds.  He leads the state of Kentucky with 1,266 wins and has accumulated 40 district championships, 22 region championships, two state runner-up finishes (1984, 1987), and four state championships (1993, 1997, 1998, 2010).  He has been named Kentucky Coach of the Year five times and was National Coach of the Year twice in 2008 and 2011.  He was inducted into the Kentucky High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1997, the Cynthiana-Harrison County Baseball Hall of Fame, and the Kentucky High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame in 2022.  The Harrison County baseball field is named “Mac Whitaker Field” in his honor.