Arnoldo “Arnie” Alvarez †
Inducted 2007
Hometown: Brownsville
High School: Brownsville High School
College: Pan American University
Best Known for: Coaching – Baseball
Aug. 13, 1946-Feb. 18, 1998
Alvarez holds the distinction of being the only man in Rio Grande Valley baseball history to participate in a UIL state championship game as a player and a coach.
Alvarez was the starting third baseman on the outstanding Brownsville High team that went to the finals in 1965, leading the Eagles in batting average that season. A decade later he led the Mercedes Tigers to the 1974 Class 3A championship game as a coach.
After high school, Alvarez played baseball for Pan American University (1967-70) and launched a coaching career that took him from Mercedes, PSJA, Los Fresnos and Brownsville Porter, where his teams won two district championships.
He was also baseball coach and athletic director at Texas Southmost College, later to become The University of Texas at Brownsville from 1985 to 1996, returning to the high school ranks for a season at Weslaco before he passed away 1998.