Stan “the Man” Bronson Jr.

“Hi yew!” is Bronson’s familiar greeting to all who pass him by. He can be found in the University’s library, in the cafeteria, near the Student Plaza fountain or on the baseball diamond during spring.

Bronson, 82, came to the U of M in 1958 to work as an equipment manager for football coach Billy “Spook” Murphy. He soon became the baseball team’s batboy, a position he has served in since the 1959 season. He was included in the 2006 Guinness Book of World Records for being the “Most Durable Batboy” ever. He takes a bow during the middle of the eighth inning of each home game.

Bronson still attends football practices and makes cameo appearances at Lady Tiger basketball and volleyball games.

If you are on campus in July, you might just get an invitation from Bronson to his birthday party, which is thrown by the campus’ cafeteria.

Trauma at birth left Bronson with a speech impediment and mild palsy. But he has overcome this to become a true “institution” at the U of M.

As former President V. Lane Rawlins once said, “Stan, as all of your many friends at the University will agree, you are ‘the Man!’”