Achievements
Vander Wal holds the modern Major League Baseball single-season record for pinch hits, with 28 in 1995 while playing for the Colorado Rockies. In his career, Vander Wal contributed 129 pinch hits, which is one of the highest totals of the modern era, behind Lenny Harris' 212. Vander Wal was inducted into the Western Michigan University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2003.
John continues to contribute to baseball as a consultant but in 2007 joined long-time friend and successful Grand Rapids entrepreneur Jim Cox in a business partnership called Priority-HR.
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