Before entering education, Midland Public Schools Superintendent Mike Sharrow played minor league baseball in Wisconsin.
He played for the Appleton Foxes in the mid-1980s. It’s still his passion, as the baseball memorabilia in his office would tell any visitors, though they are now being packed away in boxes for his retirement.
“I was playing a little baseball. I was told I wasn’t going to be playing baseball (in the long term),” he said.
Sharrow graduated from Central Michigan University with a teaching degree, and after his baseball career, he went to Houston, Texas for his first teaching job. Eventually, he served the superintendent at Algonac – his hometown – and, for the last 10 years, at Midland Public Schools.
After his retirement on July 31, he and his wife Pam will be moving to a 55-and-up community in Tennessee close to their…
