TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Florida State baseball alumni Gene Ammann and Mike Loynd have been elected to the College Baseball Hall of Fame, the College Baseball Foundation announced.
 
Ammann and Loynd are the seventh and eighth Seminoles to be inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame. Both right-handed pitchers, Ammann was at FSU from 1968-70 and Loynd from 1983-86. The 21-member class of 2025 will be inducted on February 12, 2026, at the College Baseball Hall of Fame in Overland Park, Kansas.
 
Both are already members of the FSU Athletics Hall of Fame, Ammann in 1991 and Loynd in 1993.
 
From Atlanta, Georgia, Ammann registered a 31-2 career record at FSU, including a perfect 15-0 mark in 1970. The two defeats are the fewest in a career in school history with 20+ decisions, and Ammann is the only player in Seminole history with a perfect record and more than 12 wins. He had an NCAA-record eight shutouts in that 1970 campaign. Ammann also remains No. 1 in FSU history in both career ERA, with a 1.43 (min. 200 IP), and single-season ERA, with a 0.66 in 1970 (min. 101 IP). He also is still tied for No. 10 with a 2.08 ERA in 1969, which was third-best at the time. Ammann’s eight complete games in 1969 was second-most in school history at the time and is No. 8 today, and his 20 career complete games set a record in 1970 and is second today.
 
Ammann threw a no-hitter on April 17, 1970, in a 7-0 win at USF, and combined for a no-hitter in a 3-0 triumph over Wake Forest on March 27, 1968. He made 44 career appearances with 36 starts. In 295.1 career innings, Ammann allowed 47 earned runs on 165 hits with 311 strikeouts and 141 walks.
 
He was selected in the third round of the 1970 MLB June Secondary Draft by the Milwaukee Brewers.
 
The 1986 Golden Spikes Award winner and Baseball America Player of the Year, Loynd continues to own the school single-season record for wins (20), consecutive wins (17), strikeouts (223), innings pitched (164.2), and starts (24), all achieved in 1986. In his career, he is second all-time in wins (45) and strikeouts (417, No. 1 at the time), fourth in starts (58, No. 2 at the time) and innings pitched (395.2, No. 2 at the time). Along with his record 20 wins in 1986 – still four more than the next-closest win total – Loynd won 13 games in 1985, which is tied for No. 9 in Florida State history and was second-most at the time.
 
While serving as a team captain, Loynd’s accolades in 1986 also include First Team All-America distinction by the ABCA and Baseball America and Metro Conference All-Tournament Team honors. Loynd allowed 151 career earned runs on 348 hits for a 3.44 ERA with a 45-10 record and one save in 74 appearances.
 
A Short Hills, New Jersey, native, Loynd was selected twice in the MLB Draft, by the Baltimore Orioles in the 11th round in 1985 and by the Texas Rangers in the seventh round in 1986. He played two years in the Major Leagues with the Rangers from 1986-87.
 
Ammann and Loynd are joined in the College Baseball Hall of Fame by fellow Seminole greats Dick Howser (FSU 1955-58; HC 1979 / HOF Class of 2008), J.D. Drew (1995-97 / 2016), Mike Martin (1965-66; HC 1980-2019 / 2019), Terry Kennedy (1975-77 / 2021), Danny Litwhiler (HC 1955-63 / 2021) and Mike Fuentes (1978-81 / 2023).
 
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