San Jose Sports Hall of Fame inducts four South Bay legends in Class of 2023

On a November evening in San Jose, four athletes whose careers were shaped by the South Bay were welcomed into a regional hall of fame that has quietly accumulated 121 names over nearly three decades. Lorrie Fair, Dave Stieb, Patrick Marleau, and Chris Wondolowski each arrived at greatness by different roads — through college dynasties, major league mounds, franchise-defining loyalty, and late-blooming perseverance — yet all carried the same geography in their roots. The ceremony was less a celebration of individual glory than a reminder that places, too, have a hand in making champions.