Hall of Fame
David Bradley, the 1999 GTE Academic All-American of the Year, was a three-year lettermen and four-year member of the Etta Express from 1996-99. The right-hander earned both All-America and Academic All-America honors as a junior and again as a senior. Bradley, a three-time Academic All-OAC selection, also garnered back-to-back Kent Tekulve OAC Pitcher of the Year awards in 1998 and 1999. As a senior, he won an OAC and NCAA Division III record 18 games and led Marietta to a fifth place finish in the World Series. Bradley, a member of four OAC Championship and two Mideast Championship squads, finished the 1999 season with 134 strikeouts in 120 2/3 innings, which at the time ranked second and third, respectively, on Marietta’s single-season list. He graduated with 262 strikeouts and 36 victories, which ranked third in school history, and his 36 wins rank fourth all-time in the OAC.
Bradley, a Mathematics major, became the second Marietta male to win the OAC’s Clyde A. Lamb Award and also received the Way-Weigelt Award in 1999. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 14th round of the 1999 draft and played eight seasons of professional baseball. Bradley was named a Frontier League All-Star in 2003 and a Southern League (Class-AA) All-Star in 2005. He is currently an Insurance Agent with the Western & Southern Financial Group and lives in Mineral Wells, W.Va., with his wife Julia and their three children, Isabelle, Roman and Alexander.
