Sugar Bowl

After a memorable year in which he dominated for the Archbishop Rummel baseball team and then led Nationwide Restoration to the American Legion World Series Championship, Robby Broach was selected as the Male Athlete of the Year for New Orleans. The honors are voted on by the Allstate Sugar Bowl’s New Orleans Sports Awards Committee.
 
On the mound in the spring for the Raiders, Broach was 11-1 with a 1.42 ERA and 91 strikeouts in 59 innings. He was named to the Class 5A All-State and all-metro teams.
 
In the summer, he helped Nationwide Restoration defeat Indiana 6-3 to win the American Legion World Series. The Rummel-based team is the first team from New Orleans to win a national title since the Jesuit-based Tulane Shirts in 1960.
 
During the Legion season, Broach went 12-1 with a 1.11 ERA; he had 101 strikeouts in 66 innings; and he hit .395 with eight homers, five triples, 15 doubles, and 49 RBI. He was named the Bob Feller National American Legion Pitcher of the Year.
 
Broach also handled the Brother Martin football team’s place-kicking and punting assignments.
 
He signed with Tulane in baseball.

The New Orleans Sports Awards Committee began in 1957 when James Collins spearheaded a group of sports journalists to form a sports awards committee to immortalize local sports history. For 13 years, the committee honored local athletes each month. In 1970, the Sugar Bowl stepped in to sponsor and revitalize the committee, leading to the creation of the New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame in 1971, honoring 10 legends from the Crescent City in its first induction class. While adding the responsibility of selecting Hall of Famers, the committee has continued to recognize Sugar Bowl Athletes of the Month.

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