The Fresno High 
Athletic Wall of Champions Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to honoring over 125 years 
of athletic excellence. 
We invite you to support Fresno High athletics and reconnect with the legacy 
that makes it “The School of Champions.”
The Legacy
Over the last 125 years Fresno High School’s individual athletes and teams have successfully competed at regional, state, national and international levels. Many Fresno High baseball players made it into the Major Leagues. Two of them were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Hall of Famers
Tom Seaver – pitched for Fresno High from 1959 to 1962. In 1968 he led the “Miracle Mets” to a World Championship and was inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in. A bronze statue of Seaver is located at the entrance to Citi Field in New York.
Frank Chance went to Fresno High in the mid 1890’s . He went on to play first base for the Chicago Cubs, and as their player-manager,led them to 2 consecutive World Series Championships in 1907 and 1908.
Football
Les Richter took his formidable athletic skills Football talent that he developed at Fresno High to the University of California in Berkeley in 1948. He was a consensus All-American in 1952 and anchored the LA Rams Defense for 9 Seasons before his election to the National Football League Hall of Fame in 2011.
World Records
Walter Marty broke both the Indoor (6’8 ¼) and Outdoor (6’9 ⅛) World Records in the High Jump In 1934.
Elroy Robinson at the 1937 National AAU meet at Randall’s Island, New York, simultaneously established world records for both the 880-yards and the 800-meters with a time of of 1:49.6
Olympians
Gordon Dunn won the Silver Medal in the discus competition at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
Phil Connley represented the US in the Javelin at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia
John Alstrom was a member of the US Men’s Volleyball team at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.
Liz Miles was a member of US 1984 LA Olympics Women’s Rowing Team
Robin Greiner wa a four-time U.S. national champion in Pairs Skating in1953 to 1956. and member of US 1956 WinterOlympics team.at Cortina,Italy.
Teams
1958 Baseball Team is the one team that has consistently generated positive notoriety for over 65 years is the 1958 Fresno High Baseball Team.
That 1958 FHS team produced 3 players that went on to distinguished careers in major league baseball:
Jim Maloney, who was the team’s shortstop, became an ace with the Cincinnati Reds, and one of the hardest throwing National League pitchers in the 1960’s,
Dick Ellsworth who had a 15 year Major league career with teams in both leagues but primarily with the Chicago Cubs.
