Aaron Jaworowski

Aaron Jaworowski
Hall of Fame Player Class of 2023

He is the founder and president of the Rawlings Tigers Baseball Club which he launched in the summer of 2011. The Rawlings Tigers are now positioned as the premier baseball club in the United States with over 150 teams in 24 states. He is also the founder of Balls-n-Strikes which was established in 1999. Jaworowski is an active board member of Midwest Premier Baseball and American Premier Baseball.

He was a first baseman and third baseman who was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in 1997 while playing for the University of Missouri at Columbia. He was featured on the Top 100 Prospects List by Baseball America. During the summer of 1997, Jaworowski led the Appalachian League in RBls and finished second in home runs. He also led his Twins team in RBIs, home runs. Doubles extra base hits, and at-bats. He was invited to the Twins fall instructional league in 1997.

Jaworowskí played four years of minor league baseball with the Minnesota Twins and New York Yankees. He also played for the River City Rascals and hit the first home run at the new T.R. Hughes Ballpark.

After starring for the Lafayette High School baseball team, Jaworowski played three years of collegiate baseball at the University of Missouri at Columbia where he earned All-American honors. He was also named All-Conference and an Academic All-American. He still holds single season records at Mizzou for RBls, doubles, extra base hits, and total bases. He ranks in the Top 5 in Mizzou history in single season at-bats. In 1996, he was named the Mizzou Athlete of the Year and was twice named the Mizuno National Player of the Week. He was the Big 12 Tournament MVP, getting 15 hits in 20 at-bats with 15 RBIs and 6 doubles, breaking Robin Ventura’s tournament record for hits and RBls. In 1996, Jaworowski had four home runs in a doubleheader and eight consecutive hits in a doubleheader. In 1995, he hit a walk-off home run against Oklahoma State, the Number One team ín America at the time. Jaworowski signed with the Minnesota Twins after his junior year at Mizzou.