Keith Slaughter

This well-liked and respected baseball coach directed the Haworth High School baseball program for 11 seasons. It was what his teams
accomplished during that relatively short stint that turned heads.

The Huskies assembled a 202-111 record from 1969 through 1979. As members of the Olympic Conference for eight of those seasons,
Haworth won or finished runner-up six times. The city’s southside school was particularly potent in the postseason, winning seven
sectionals, four regionals and two semistates. Twice the Huskies were in the single class IHSAA state baseball championships and twice
they lost semifinal games to Evansville Memorial — the latter game to a squad led by Don Mattingly, who later had an outstanding career
with the New York Yankees.

Slaughter moved from Greentown to Kokomo before his senior year in 1953. A pitcher, Slaughter was a starter in 8 of 11 games that season,
then while at Indiana Central (now the University of Indianapolis), he pitched out of the bullpen.

Slaughter, an inductee in the Indiana Baseball Hall of Fame