A member of the Little League Baseball Braves that won the championship from 1955 to 1957, Jim McMahon was twice named to the league’s All Star team.

At Warren High School he earned six varsity letters, two in baseball, one in basketball, and three in football, playing on the 1962 Redskins gridiron squad that defeated Bristol for the first of many times during the Pat Abbruzzi coaching era.

He then turned much of his attention to slow-pitch softball.  In the Warren Men’s Softball League he was a player/manager on fifteen (15) championship teams that competed under such names as Golden Lounge, Moe’s Tap, Old Ironsides, Mr. Ts, and Ken’s Auto Body.  In 1984 and 1985, respectively, he was the league All Stars manager and coach.

Jim played in the Fall River Men’s Softball League for twenty-six years and its Senior League for another fifteen seasons.  During this time he was a member of seven (7) championship teams, including the 1982 squad that finished the season undefeated.

He received the Fall River Men’s Softball League’s 1979 Joseph Martin Memorial Trophy for Sportsmanship and was named to the league’s Hall of Fame in 1993.

In the Rhode Island Senior League Jim has played for Mulhearn’s Pub, Francis Farms, and Cozy Grill for the last fourteen years.

In softball tournament competition Jim has achieved a number of honors: a member of the 1971 Fall River Masons Furniture team that qualified for the Massachusetts state tournament; the Most Valuable Player of the 1978 Roger Araujo Memorial Tourney; a player on the Fall River Nomads that finished second in Massachusetts in 1979; and a member of the L. G. Balfour squad that captured third place in the 1981 New England Regional Men’s Major Industrial Tournament.   

Jim coached Little League Baseball (for nineteen years), School Indoor Soccer League, and Youth PeeWee Football in Warren.  In baseball he coached a number of championship league and All Star teams, including the Braves of 1987 and 2000, the Major League All Stars of 1988, and the 1991 Senior All Stars.  The 1988 PeeWee football team that he served as one of its coaches reached the state semi-finals.

He has been a mainstay of the Warren Athletic Hall of Fame committee since its creation by fellow Hall of Fame member Pete Sepe in 1998.

Pictures from Hall of Fame archives