Jake Fretz
Jake Fretz
Hall of Fame Class of 1995
Fretz came to Kansas in 1950 to coach football at Bethel College in Newton. After three years he moved to Wichita where he taught math and science at Meade Junior High. It was during that time that he became an umpire in the National Baseball Congress program.
He officiated for two decades and taught at Meade for 18 years before retiring in 1976.
Fretz was born in Pennsylvania and was a three-sport letterman in Bluffton College in Ohio.
