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You could see it coming. On this day in 1952, Frank Reveira collected three hits and drove in four runs as Saint Louis beat McKinley 19-1 in an ILH baseball game. Reviera, a freshman catcher, had sportswriters and scouts all atwitter over his future, with the Star-Bulletin’s Carl Machado writing that Reviera ‘is destined to become one of the Crusaders’ all-time greats.’ Reveira proved Machado right, in a sense, being named first-team ILH for the first three seasons of his […]

On this day in 1992, Kalaheo’s Alika Smith expanded his range to 60 feet, 6 inches. Smith, who was deadly from 3-point range as a basketball player, took the mound and beat Mililani 1-0 in the OIA playoffs with five strikeouts on 81 pitches in the complete game. Smith also helped produce the Mustangs’ only run with a line drive single to center before Tim Darra hit a sacrifice fly. Cory Nakashima had both of Mililani’s hits and Todd Kimura […]

On this day in 2000, Eli McAngus hit an inside-the-park grand slam with two outs in the bottom of the seventh at Ala Wai Field and Kamehameha stunned Iolani 11-6. Bronson Sardinha, Alika Kuraoka and Kai Henry helped set up the heroics to turn a 6-5 deficit into an unlikely victory. Kahi Kaanoi earned the victory after shutting the Raiders down in the bottom of the seventh. The Warriors went on to win the ILH that season and beat Leilehua […]

Wailaua grew baseball stars back in the day, and Toshio Kameda was just the latest. On this day in 1937, Kameda struck out 14 batters as Mid-Pacific beat Roosevelt 13-3. Kameda was the youngest of nine boys from the household. Hawaii legend Ted “Big Train” Kameda grew up to be the best of them, and they all played together during the war. His other brothers were Tom, Mitsu, Shige, Donald, Robert, Fred and adopted sibling Fumio Sunahara. Toshi Kameda played […]