Helms Bohringer saw 3 seasons, turned high school coach

Helms Bohringer's Mineola High School baseball team went through some tough years on the way to a playoff birth in 2014, according to The Mineola American.

But it was the team's effort through those years that got them to that point, Bohringer told The American.

"They did everything they were supposed to do from a work ethic standpoint," Bohringer told The American. "They believed that they could win and sometimes that a tough thing when you came up as sophomores and you're losing."

Years earlier, Bohringer played for Mineola High and his work ethic took him on to college and to the pros. His pro career lasted three seasons. He missed AA.

Bohringer's pro career began in 1989, taken by the Dodgers in the 37th round of the draft out of Adelphi University. Bohringer has also been credited by his formal name Helmut Bohringer and misspelled as Helms Borhinger.

At Adelphi, Bohringer hit .400 for the team in 1987 and helped play his team twice to regionals and won all-Northeast in 1989. He was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in 2000.

He started with the Dodgers in the rookie Gulf Coast League and at single-A Vero Beach. He got into 43 games between them and hit .247.

Bohringer moved to short-season Yakima and rookie Great Falls for 1990. In 31 games, the infielder hit .300. He then played 1991 with high-A Bakersfield. he went 2 for 4, with two RBI in an August start. Overall, he hit .301 over 38 games to end his career.

He soon returned to Mineola and he eventually took over the baseball team at his old school. In 2015, he led a New York Baseball Academy program at Hofstra.

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1990 Minor League Tally
Players/Coaches Featured: 2,821
Made the Majors:1,067-37.8%
Never Made Majors:1,754-62.2%-X
5+ Seasons in the Majors: 444
10+ Seasons in the Minors:266

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 - Kevin Blankenship saw 3 ML seasons, became worst enemy, 6/22/10
 - Daryl Blanks played 3 pro seasons, later coached youth ball, 1/23/14
 - Tony Blasucci won praise upon AA promotion, passed in 2014, 5/31/11
 - Ron Blazier made bigs ahead of schedule, saw two seasons, 7/24/17

 - Greg Blevins had big college day, played two pro seasons, 8/25/20
 - Pete Blohm had good Augusta season, played seven total, 3/16/13

 - Greg Blosser saw 22 ML games in two seasons, also Japan, 2/26/23 

 - Jim Blueberg proved a late bloomer, saw six pro seasons, 8/11/12
 - Brad Bluestone was trainer in Louisville in pros, college, 2/28/12
 - Rob Blumberg proved strikeout pitcher early, saw 4 seasons, 10/24/13