When Gary Busch wasn’t the Stout baseball team’s king of the hill during his four-year Blue Devil career, which spanned from 1987-1990, he was serving as the king’s right-hand-man.

Busch and 1999 Stout Athletic Hall of Fame inductee Dan Larson pitched Stout to an NAIA College World Series appearance in 1989. In 1990, Busch led the Blue Devils to back-to-back NAIA College World Series showings. Busch shares, with Larson, Stout’s record for all-time victories (24). Busch owns the program’s career winning percentage mark (.727) and ranks second on the career innings pitched list, with 206. In 1990, Busch earned all-WSUC, all-District 14, all-Area IV, second-team all-NAIA and second-team Academic All-American honors. That year, Busch was the Area IV Player of the Year. The Blue Devils won three WSUC and three District 14 crowns during Busch’s years.

Busch is presently employed by Potter Farm & Tie, and currently resides in Appleton.