His mission throughout life was simple – help the neighbor who needs us, consider their feelings, and be tolerant above all things.\u00a0 2001 Branford Sports Hall of Famer inductee David Marsh supported this message in his roles as a two-sport athlete, a scholar and a career man.<\/p>\n
David attended Branford High School from 1945 to 1948,\u00a0 where he was a member of the Hornets\u2019 baseball team as a left fielder and team captain in his senior season.\u00a0 During his baseball career at Branford, \u201cDave\u201d was a teammate of fellow Hall of Fame inductees Joe Chandler (\u201990), Bill Mischler (\u201993), Jim Murphy (\u201995), Dick Jackson (\u201997), Ken Erickson (\u201997) Vincent Casanova (\u201998), Charlie Lake (\u201999), David Clark (\u201900), Mel Bigelow (\u201901),\u00a0 and Bob Vishno (\u201901), and played for head coach, Warren Sampson (\u201992).\u00a0 With his overall batting average hovering around .365, \u201cDave\u201d was an important cog to the 1945 Housatonic League Runner-up team.\u00a0 Branford won seven of its first eight games en route to its second place finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":731,"template":"","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/branfordsportshalloffame.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inductee\/730"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/branfordsportshalloffame.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/inductee"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/branfordsportshalloffame.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/inductee"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/branfordsportshalloffame.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/branfordsportshalloffame.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}