Dwane Helbig, First Baseball All-American, Passes Away
June 14, 2012
By John Hunt
The Oregonian
Dwane “Dewey’’ Helbig, the first All-American baseball player at Oregon State, has died at the age of 79.
Helbig played just one season at OSU, but it was a memorable one. He hit .411 in 1952, the second-highest average in school history, and led the Beavers to their first Pacific Coast Conference championship and their first College World Series.
Born in Denver in 1932, Helbig moved to Portland as a child and became a two-sport star at Roosevelt High School and went on to OSU, where he also played football. After a professional baseball career that included two seasons with the Portland Beavers, Helbig was a high school teacher and coach for 30 years before retiring in 1989 and living in Bend. He died Sunday due to complications from a stroke.
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