Mike Gustafson, president and chief executive officer of the National College Baseball Hall of Fame since 2009, will step down from those roles, according to an announcement Wednesday.

A transition committee, consisting of members of the College Baseball Foundation Board of Trustees, will name a replacement, the announcement said. Gustafson will become executive director emeritus for the College Baseball Foundation and the Hall of Fame and continue to do research on the game's history.

The former Monterey and Texas Tech player was part of the Lubbock group that in 2004 established the College Baseball Foundation to recognize and preserve the history of the game. They started with the Brooks Wallace Award, originally presented to the nation's outstanding player and later changed to honor the country's top shortstop each season.

The group established the College Baseball Hall of Fame in 2005 and inducted the first class in 2006. In the following years, the foundation started annual awards to honor the nation's top pitcher, the best two-way player and the coach of the year. Another award honors those who gained distinction after playing college baseball, named for former President George H.W. Bush, who was the first recipient.

In 2011, the Black Legends and Pioneers committee and an umpire award were started.

Annual Hall of Fame inductions in Lubbock took place for 11 consecutive years beginning in 2006. In the spring of 2017, the foundation ceased aspirations for a Hall of Fame museum in Lubbock, unable to secure the necessary funding or build an adjacent stadium whose events would have provided a revenue stream.

The Night of Champions event for inductions and players of the year was conducted in a virtual online format in 2020 and 2021. The inductions resumed in person in 2022 in Omaha, Nebraska.

"This has been a labor of love," Gustafson said in the announcement. "From our earliest emails that led to the creation of the Brooks Wallace Award to the Hall of Fame inductions and award presentation events to keeping the organization going through the pandemic, it has been a joy, especially when I think about all the friends and professional relationships that have been part of it."

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