Harry Cunningham Jr.
Year Inducted
1987
Sport
Softball
Hometown
Hagerstown
Harry “Junior” Cunningham was a star fastpitch softball pitcher for 25 years. He had a career record of 506 wins and only 65 losses. “Junior” pitched 10 no-it, no-run games — two coming in championship games.
Not only could he pitch, but he was a star hitter with a lifetime .417 average — once driving in all nine runs in a win. Cunningham bested the “King and His Court” softball team twice, with scores of 1-0 and 2-1. He also pitched against the California Cuties.
In 1949 and 1950, “Junior” pitched seven games a week and a doubleheader on Sunday. He was known as the Iron Man of softball.
He received the MVP award four times in the Washington County Fastpitch League.
Cunningham was the organizer of the Washington County Sports Hall of Fame, Inc.