BIO

One cannot pass by a news story covering Barnstable High School baseball or soccer in the mid- to late-1980s without having one name consistently jump off the page, glaringly: Gary Taylor.

One of the top five greatest baseball players to ever don the Red & White, resulting in a full scholarship to UMaine and then a brilliant minor league career with the St. Louis Cardinals, Taylor’s marks on the baseball diamond may one day be challenged but it is doubtful they will ever be broken. His accolades are all well-deserved, but one thing is equally certain for this brilliant ballplayer and soccer star — the numbers do not lie. As time passes on for all of us and anecdotes of glory days expand in memory, one simple fact remains: Taylor set the marks that all players who wear the Red & White must forever try to emulate; for no player before him, and few afterwards, can ever deny that this former Red Raider’s exploits on the diamond are deserving of this great honor we bestow upon him today. His career is the benchmark. It is the quintessence and definition of what all athletes at this great school can only hope one day to accomplish. He was inducted into the BHS Hall of Fame in 2008.