Dr. Ralph Mulligan
1980
Coaching
A native of Uniontown and a graduate of that town’s high school, where he competed in football, basketball and track and field. Mulligan graduated from High Point College, NC, where he competed four years in football, basketball and track, and earned his degree in medicine from the Medical College of Virginia. During his undergraduate days, Doc was his college’s MVP in basketball, a 9.9 sprinter in the 100 and a 22 flat in the 220. Mulligan organized Central Catholic High School’s first track team (1940). “No man in our athletic history received, organized and developed as many new, big projects for the cultural benefit of the community with the resultant rewards to individuals and teams than the creator of the Karver Mile, the Sports Festival, the Olympic Sports Spectacle, the Berks Athletic Club and the Chamber of Commerce Sports Banquet. When Reading returned to organized professional baseball (1952), Dr. Mulligan initiated the idea of a Big Fellow-Little Fellow Night, which drew large turnouts at Municipal Stadium (FirstEnergy Stadium).
Deceased
Inducted Posthumously