Chris Forbes
Inducted in 1999
Coached for nearly 40 years including youth and summer league baseball
Named Head Coach at Socorro High School in 1986
19 Bi-District Titles, 9 Area Titles, 6 Region Quarterfinals Titles, 4 Region Semifinals Titles, 4 Region Finals Appearances, 1 Region Finals Title and 1 State Championship in 2009 which also marked the final year of his coaching career
Delivered El Paso’s first High School Baseball State Championship in 60 years winning the Class 5A title in 2009
Named Texas High School State “Coach of the Year” for 5A Classification in 2009
Inducted into the Texas High School Coaches Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013
Inducted into The El Paso Athletic Hall of Fame 2004
Earned more than 10 El Paso High School Coach of the Year Awards
Teams dominated District 2-5A and later newly formed District 1-5A as District Champions
Teams routinely ranked in the Top 10 in Texas from 1991 to 2009
Eighteen of his players have played professionally
Seventeen of his players have been named to Texas High School All State teams
577 Wins as a Head Coach
Field at Socorro High School is named “Chris Forbes Field” in his honor
Coached Cory Falvey who is El Paso’s only Texas State High School Baseball Player of the Year in 2009