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Bill Buckner*

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Bill Buckner is known throughout the country by knowledgeable baseball observers as one of the great hitters to play major league baseball. Only 44 players in the history of Major League Baseball have hit safely more times than Bill Buckner.

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Bob Covey*

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For many years, the name Bob Covey was synonymous with football excellence in the city of Napa. As a sophomore, he was moved up to the varsity from the ramblers during the season. His keen football mind and crisp tackling

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Jerry Dunlap

Jerry Dunlap

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As the son of a football coach and college athletic director, it is no surprise that Jerry Dunlap would follow in his dad’s footsteps, and it was Napa High’s good fortune that landed Dunlap in Napa. Dunlap grew up in

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Jim Dykes*

Jim Dykes*

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Jim Dykes was an outstanding baseball and football player whose high school career was interrupted by World War II. As a freshman in 1941, Dykes started several games as a pitcher for Napa High School. He had a very strong

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Randy Franck

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Randy Franck was a football player at Napa High School in 1979, 1980 and 1981. To those who saw him play, coached him, or played with or against him, this first sentence is a gross understatement. As a sophomore in

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Les Franco

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Les Franco was the Most Valuable Player on the 1961 football team, excelling as a linebacker on defense and part-time quarterback on offense. He was also an outstanding linebacker on the 1960 team. Like his father before him, Franco was

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Mike Gibson

Mike Gibson

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Much like fellow inductee Ed Blanton, there was not much Mike Gibson could not do as a lineman on the Napa High Football team. Gibson was not a typical “big and burly lineman” who relied strictly on size. Rather he

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Carlos Gonzalez

Carlos Gonzalez

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At the conclusion of the 1975 Napa High football season Carlos Gonzalez won virtually every honor and award available to a high school lineman. Playing both offense and defense, Gonzalez seldom, if ever, came off the field during his high

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Louie Guisto*

Lou Guisto

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With his induction into the Napa High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999, Louie Guisto becomes the oldest alumnus to be so honored. Not much is known about Guisto’s achievements at Napa High School, but based on his accomplishments

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Steve Hendrickson*

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Steve Hendrickson was a football player and wrestler at Napa High School. While Hendrickson received many accolades for his wrestling abilities, which included being ranked by the Sacramento Bee as a junior, being named captain of the Napa team and

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Joe LeMasters

Joe LeMasters

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Joe LeMasters was a two-sport standout for Napa High, leading the Indians on the football field and the baseball diamond. As the Indians’ signal caller, LeMasters was named first-team All-Monticello Empire League Division I, Offensive Player of the Year on

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Jim Link

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Jim Link had a two sport career at Napa High School. He performed well on the baseball field and had an incredible record as a three year starter on the football team. As a freshman, Link was a starter on

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Arlie Lloyd

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Arlie Lloyd was a standout defensive tackle for the Napa Indian football teams of 1958 and 1959. One San Francisco newspaper singled out Lloyd as one of Northern California’s top defensive high school linemen. Lloyd’s high school coach Bob Covey,

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Todd Pridy

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Todd Pridy was a football and baseball player at Napa High School. With all due respect to his football talent, Pridy will always be remembered for what he contributed to the Napa High baseball program – first as a player

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Dana Schulz

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Dana Schulz was an outstanding two-sport athlete at Napa high School and later at Napa Junior College. Schulz was a standout center and linebacker on the 1964 NBL Championship Napa Indian team. He led the team in tackles, recovered 10

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Dick Simpson

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Dick Simpson was a two-sport standout for the Indians during his time at Napa High, but truly excelled on the football field. A Co-Captain on the 1964-1965 squad, he had the unique distinction of being named to the All-North Bay

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Jay Suesens

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Jay Suesens was a football standout for the Indians during his tenure at Napa High. He was All-Monticello Empire League in both his junior and senior years, and was also named NHS Student of the Month. As a lineman for

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Eric Tye

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Eric Tye played three years of football and baseball at Napa High. He played on junior varsity teams as a sophomore and starred on the varsity teams in his junior and senior years. He was All-NBL honorable mention in 1973

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Matt Yourkin

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Matt Yourkin was an incredible two-sport student-athlete and leader on both the football and baseball fields. As quarterback for the Indians, Yourkin was named a team captain and selected as Coaches Offensive Player of the Year during his senior campaign,

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