Wisconsin Dartball
Hall of Fame
Inductees

Al "Bubbles" Komoroski

Lives in Two Rivers.

Started playing dartball in 1965 when he was 13 years old . Has played in the Two Rivers City League, the Lakeshore Dartball League, and the Manitowoc Holy Name League. His highest league average was .618 in 1982 in the Two Rivers City League. His overall lifetime batting average is .556 as of 2007, before medical issues took some of his abilities. Has won 62 league high RBI trophies, and 23 league high average trophies between the three leagues, as well as many league team championships. Has shot in over 37 state tournaments, and was the captain of 7 class A State Champion teams, all with Sauve's Auto Service of Two Rivers, including a record 4 straight from 1999 to 2002.

Was also on the first two State 4-Man champion teams. Also was captain of 39 other tournament champion teams, and won 19 individual shoot-offs. As of 2009, he had served the Two Rivers League as President or Vice President for 35 years. He has been a member of the State Tournament committee since 1991, and helped bring the state tournament to Manitowoc 3 times.

Nominated by long time team-mates Jay & Tim Stegmann

Arlyn Solberg

Lives in Elk Mound.

Started playing Dartball in 1955 at the age of 13 years old. Later played in the Commercial League in EauClaire for 30+ years. He won numerous individual batting awards during a 25 year span of .600 plus seasons, including a personal high of .690. Still an active player, Arlyn is a first cousin of Rich Ovren, one of McFadden’s Trucking team top players. Because his Co-op Shoppers team had their best years the same time McFadden’s had their run, Arlyn was never on a state champion team, but finished 2nd at state twice.

Nominated by Jim Hinckle.

Bill Moldenhauer

Lives in Hartford.

Started playing Dartball in 1972 at the age of 13. Has played in the Kettle Moraine Lutheran League (1972-2008), and the Hillcrest League (1990’s). His highest season average was 1985-86 when he batted .723 (201-278). His lifetime average in the Kettle Moraine League is .566 over 36 years, including five times over .600. Also held the position of President, VP, and Director for 5 seasons in that league. Has played in numerous State Dartball Tournaments in the Class A division.

Nominated by Jeff Moldenhauer.

Bob Leskovar

Lives in Milwaukee.

Started playing Dartball in 1957 at 15 years old in the Milwaukee CYO League. Has shot in the Catholic Blue & Gold League (1958-81), the West Allis Classic 9 Man League (58-81), the South Side Tavern League (82-88), the Muskego Tavern League (85-88), and the S. Milwaukee 4-Man League (1980-present). Has hit over .600 in league play since 1973! His highest league average was the 1982-83 season, when he hit .717 in the West Allis-West Milwaukee 4 Man League.

Has been on 11 Wisconsin State Championship teams, the most of anybody. The first championship was in 1977 with the AMC Pacers team, then won 4 titles with Cruz Trucking, and has won 5 titles with Hickory Inn, the latest in 2009. He has 79 Individual Shoot-off trophies as of 2011, from any tournament that offered a shoot-off. Also won many league team championships and high average awards. In addition to his many awards, he has run two Dartball tournaments every year, a 4-man and a 2-man. He has also served as league secretary/treasurer in the S. Milwaukee League since 1980, and been a member of the state committee since 1988.

Nominated by teammate Mike Studer.

Dave Kiesow

(Deceased) Lived in Oshkosh.

Started playing dartball at age 13 in gym class at Sacred Heart School. Started playing leagues in 1959 (at age 16) in the St Vincent's League in Oshkosh, the Sacred Heart Friday League from 1961 to 2011, the Sunday Couples League at Sacred Heart from the late 70's to the early 90's, the Monday Lutheran league in Oshkosh from 1990-1998, and the Thursday 4-man League at Sacred Heart from 1991 to 2006. His highest average was .611 in the Sacred Heart Friday league. He was been on 3 state championship teams: twice with the Vultures(1964 & 69), and the Castaways (1990). Also was on 8 Eagle's tournament championships teams in 1978, 1981, 1987, 1991, 1994, 1996, 2001, and 2006. He won 5 league average titles. He won over 30 league championships, including 20 in the Sacred Heart Friday League. He was the President of the Friday night league from 1967-1970 and ran the city tournament those same years. He made boards for the Sacred Heart Leagues in the 90's and early 2000's. He also set-up and take down the boards for the Friday league. Friday night league was named after him for all of years of dedicated service to Oshkosh Dartball. Nominated by his son, Kevin Kiesow.

Dave Schettle Sr

Lives in Oshkosh.

Started playing Dartball in 1953 at the age of 16 years old. Has played in the Sacred Heart League (1953-present), the St. Vincent’s League  (27 years), the Ripon City League (11 years), and the Sacred Heart Single-Triple League (14 years). He has shot over .600 forty-four times, including 13 times over 640. His best season average was .707 in 1979 in the Ripon League. In 2006, at the age of 68, he batted .640 in the Sacred Heart Single-Triple League, with over 1,318 at bats. He has won over 50 high average league titles.

Dave has been on 4 state champion teams, in 1964 & 69 (Vultures), 1979 (Pinky’s), and 1990 (Castaways). He has also been on many league and tournament champions. Other things he has done include assisting with the state tournament in Ripon and Oshkosh, making wood boards for league play, and sponsoring tournament teams.

Nominated by Mike Goetsch.

Delbert "Del" Petermann

(Deceased) Lived in West Bend.

Started playing Dartball at the age of 19 years old in the Kettle Moraine Lutheran League in 1941. He had been a team captain in that league from 1941to 2009 . Only missed a few years of Dartball, all because of WW II. His highest season average was .498 in 1987-88, and had 17 seasons over .450. During his 68 year Dartball career, he held officer positions in the KMLDL of: secretary (13 years), Treasurer (18 years), Vice President (3 years), and President (3 years), and is a member of the KMLDL Hall of Fame.

He played on the 1988 Class A state champions Yahr Oil.

Nominated by Robert Lompa Jr .

Edward Nutter

(Deceased) Lived in Sussex. 

Started playing Dartball in 1948 at the age of 18. Has played in the Lutheran Federation League (42 years), the Milwaukee Public Schools Senior League (24 years), the Kettle Moraine League (11 years) and the Catholic Blue & Gold League (5 years). For the first 40 years (from 1948 to 1988) he shot a league average between .580 to .620. Has batted over .460 since then, and continues to play. He was his team captain for at least 50 years, and was a league President 3 times.Was on the league champion team at least 30 times. Played on the 1948 Northside Lutherans State Champion team. Also was on teams that finished 2nd twice at State, as well as several other top four finishes. In 2009, shot in the state tournament for the 61st time, and was on the team that won 4th place consolation in Class A.

Nominated by the Enderis team members.

Erv Fiedler

Lives in Iron Ridge.

Started playing Dartball in 1956 at age 23. Has played in the Kettle Moraine Lutheran Watertown 4-man league 1988-present, and the Hickory Inn 4-man league 2001-present. From 1981 thru 2007, his batting average was between .560 and .663. His highest average was in 1989 league play, when he hit .663 and was the league batting champ. Erv was on the 1988 Class B state champs Hillcrest, and also on the 2008 Class A state champs Yahr Oil. He has also been on the state 4-man champs in 2006. In 1997 he was the State tournament high shoot-off qualifier with 16 out of 20 darts. Erv also ran the Hillcrest 4, 7, and 9 man tournaments from 1985-1998, and has been on the state tournament committee since 1996. Erv builds hand crafted basswood dartboards, that he sells to other Dartball players.

Nominated by Dale Lenuis.

Fran Wagner

Lives in Oshkosh.

Started playing Dartball at age 13 in the St Vincent's League in Oshkosh. Played in the Ripon league from the mid 70's to mid 80's and the St Vincent's league in Oshkosh from 1963 to 1990 then 2002 to the present. Also the Sacred Heart Friday League from 1964 to the present (minus 6 years in the 1990's). He has batted over .600 between 32 and 35 times in his career, including a career high .688 in the 1979-1980 season in Ripon. He has been on 3 state championship teams: Vultures (1969), Pinky’s (1979) and the Castaways (1990). He also played with 8 Eagle's Tournament Championship teams in 1978, 1981, 1987, 1991, 1994, 1996, 2001, and 2006. He has won at least 12 league average titles. He is the 1982 and 1990 state shoot-off champion. Fran has also been the league president of the St.Vincents league for 6 years in the 1970's. Fran was the chairman of the 2006 State Tournament at Lourdes High School in Oshkosh.

Nominated by Kevin Kiesow.

Gary Rassbach

Lives in Prairie Farm.

Started playing Dartball at the age of 13 years old in 1959 with the Arland Yanks team in the Prairie Farm League. Has also played in the Barron County League for over 20 years. He won many high average awards, and in 2004 he had his highest season average of .630, in the middle of 3 straight years over .600. Gary was also President of the Northwest League for 25 years as well as the captain for his Arland Yanks team for over 25 years.

Nominated by his sister Barb Brower.

Norm Binder

(Deceased) Lived in Mequon

Norm started playing Dartball in 1950 at age 23 when he heard a bunch of yelling coming from the basement of the St. Peter & Paul’s Church across the street from his home. He looked in the window and saw guys playing Dartball. It sounded like they were having fun, so he checked it out and they asked him to join. He played in the Milwaukee Blue & Gold League (1950’s), The Northside Catholic League (1960’s-90’s), the West Allis Classic League (60’s-80’s), and the Milwaukee Senior Recreation League (90’s-2000’s). A lifetime .500+ hitter, his best league year was in 1980-81 when batted .641 and had 194 RBI’s in the Northside Catholic League. He also hit .628 in the 1978-79 season. Norm was on 4 state champion teams: 1956 (Jonny & Gails), 1971 (The Panzer Division), 1978 (Binder Plumbing), 1982 (Dartball News). He passed the love of Dartball onto his two sons. Tom shot on the 1978 team with him, and Matt was on the 1982 state champion team.  Norm also won numerous batting average and RBI titles, as well as several state shoot-off awards. He was the sponsor of the Binder Plumbing team for many years, and also started the St. Catherine’s team in the Northside Catholic League. Norm was well known as a clutch hitter. In the last year of his life, he was battling cancer, but still hit a two out triple at the state tournament to put his team into the consolation finals. Nominated by his son Thomas Binder. Both of his sons, Matt & Tom accepted the award for their Father in 2010.

Rich Ovren

(Deceased) Lived in Menomonie

Shot in the Eau Claire Commercial League. Was one of the premier triple shooters for one of the best teams from the EauClaire area for many years. He was on seven state championship teams. Nominated by Jim Hinckle.

His wife, Char, accepted the HOF award plaque on his behalf in 2010.

Click here for more info about: Rich Ovren

Rick "Bay View Bomber" Fare

Lives in Mount Pleasant.

Started playing Dartball around 1960. During the 1963-64 season of the .400 Classic League, he hit .653 and had 220 RBI’s at the age of 19 years old, earning him the nickname “The Bay View Bomber”. Has also shot in the West Allis Classic League, the Catholic Blue & Gold League, the Hickory Inn 4-man League, and the Summer Tavern League. Has at least 22 seasons with a batting average over .600, including a .688 during the 1969-70 season. In the 2008-09 Hickory Inn 4-man League, he won the league batting title with a .630 average, to add to his list of many high average league titles. He has also been part of many league championship teams, many dominated by Fare family members. He has been on 5 State Champion teams: Panzer’s Service (1968), Binder Plumbing (1978), Dartball News (1982), First Class (1992), and Oak Manor (B-2009).

Nominated by longtime teammate Jim Hinckle.

Willie Krueger

Lives in Brillion.

Started playing Dartball in 1965 at the age of 23. Played in the Manitowoc County Lutheran League (20 years) and the Manitowoc County League (28 years). Retired from Dartball league play in 2005 because of back problems. Highest season league average was in 1975 when he batted .697 in the Manitowoc County League. Was on 3 state championship teams: Pinky’s Bar in 1979, and Sauve’s Auto Service in 1991, and Reedsville Sportsmen (Class B) in 2006. Still shoots in the State Tournament every year. Has over 167 Dartball trophies, including 33 league high average trophies. Has helped with many league Dartball tournaments or other things at the Sportsmen Club.

Nominated by Mike Goetsch.

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