Steve Barkan
Elected : USSSA New York Hall Of Fame in 2014
Inducted : 2015, Islandia, NY
Steve’s 42 year career in softball, he has served as a sponsor, manager, co-manager and coach. In that time, he was part of teams that won eight National Championships, one Regional Championship, eleven state championships and some three dozen league championships.
After three years managing a local team, in 1976, Steve joined the County Sports “A” team and Major teams. In his nine years with County Sports, they had a 2nd place finish in the 1978 Major Eastern Regional and a 7th place finish in that year’s Major World Series. Additionally, they came in 13th in the 1978 Eastern A Regional and 4th in the 1980 Eastern A regional. They won the Class A Eastern Regional A tournament and World Series in 1981.
With Steve as co-manager, they won the New York B State Championship in 1983 and 14th in the 1984 Class A World Series. In 1985, County Sports/Bombat won the National One-Pitch Championship and in 1986, they had three top eight finishes in Major NIT’s.
From 1988 through 1992, Steve was a coach with the Ma Grundy’s team that won five Florida State and one National Championship in the 40+ division. From 1995 through 2006, Steve served as a coach for the New York Statesmen, in the senior division. In those 12 years, the Statesmen won 5 Senior National Championships and had 8 second place finishes in National Championships in the senior divisions. From 1994 through 2013, Steve was co-manager, with Ray Burr, of Brookhaven teams that won five consecutive NY 40+ State Championships (1994-98) and approximately 30 Brookhaven League Championships.
In 2014, after what turned out to be a three month retirement, Steve managed the Silver Streaks to the Brookhaven 60+ league championship
