BB: SLIAC: St Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

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hopefan

Everybody rained out today at Wartburg.... things will pick up tomorrow.....
The only thing not to be liked in Florida is no D3 hoops!!!

y_jack_lok


y_jack_lok


hopefan

Way to go Gorlocks... will anxiously follow the D3 Series!!!!
The only thing not to be liked in Florida is no D3 hoops!!!

y_jack_lok

Quote from: hopefan on May 17, 2015, 04:55:13 PM
Way to go Gorlocks... will anxiously follow the D3 Series!!!!

Spelling test for hopefan.

How do you spell Gorlok?
a) Gorlok
b) Gorlock

You can find the answer in this article: http://websterathletics.com/news/2015/5/17/BB_0517151441.aspx?path=baseball

hopefan

yelled at again... hey, it only took me 2 years to learn how to spell Creal... give me time... ;D ;D
The only thing not to be liked in Florida is no D3 hoops!!!

y_jack_lok

Quote from: hopefan on May 18, 2015, 11:08:57 AM
yelled at again... hey, it only took me 2 years to learn how to spell Creal... give me time... ;D ;D

Just wanting you to be the best you can be.  :D

y_jack_lok

#1282
Quote from: y_jack_lok on May 14, 2015, 08:12:43 AM
Webster did not have third baseman Jeff Kammer (.394 BA, 9 HR, 42 RBI) in the lineup yesterday. Hope he's okay.

I see he is back in the lineup against SUNY-Cortland in the first World Series game today. Wearing some kind of protection on his left foot/ankle at the plate. Not sure if he always does that.

Ralph Turner

Webster's losing a DH to an "SAA average" Rhodes team casts some doubts about the Gorloks' #22 ranking this week.

y_jack_lok


Ralph Turner

Memorial day article highlighting the careers of 5 surviving WW-2 veterans living in Texas.

Here is the excerpt about Frank Saucier, for whom the ball field at Westminster is named.

https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/mlb/texas-rangers/article230759829.html


QuoteFrank Saucier grew up in Missouri and served as one of the youngest deck officers commissioned by the Navy in World War II. He graduated with a degree in math and physics from Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, home of the National Churchill Museum, where Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech in 1946. In 1949, Saucier batted a blistering .446 with the Wichita Falls Spudders of the Big State League. In 1950, The Sporting News named Saucier as as Minor League Player of the Year after hitting .343 and winning the Texas League batting title with the San Antonio Missions.

In baseball circles, the Amarillo businessman is known for being replaced by major-league baseball's smallest player, three-foot-seven-inch tall, 65-pound Eddie Gaedel, who wore the number "1/8" on his jersey when he pinch-hit for Saucier in a publicity stunt in 1951.

When war came again, the owner of the St. Louis Browns, Bill Veeck, a master showman, future Hall of Famer and former Marine, who lost a leg in WWII made an unsuccessful bid to exempt his outfielder from the Navy. Once again, Saucier left baseball to serve in the Korean War for two years and never looked back.

Saucier worked in the finance and oil business until he retired at age 85. Today, the Westminster College baseball field bears his name.

y_jack_lok

^^^ That's really interesting. Thanks for sharing. +1


y_jack_lok

Quote from: y_jack_lok on July 29, 2019, 02:23:47 AM
2017 D3Baseball.com Pitcher of the Year is doing well in Double-A.

https://websterathletics.com/news/2019/7/29/baseball-former-gorlok-josh-fleming-tosses-second-straight-nine-inning-complete-game-for-double-amontgomery.aspx?fbclid=IwAR0fvoV46O4m5cnXYNE4Wwp-Nzbh3SB3dPV0gZl5NDfOqtKbX0p2kGQWCu8

https://mobile.twitter.com/BiscuitBaseball/status/1155630253974462464

Update:; https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/08/rays-to-select-josh-fleming.html?fbclid=IwAR3VVfcSDgrOnLA00k8SFXKej3zdaHOGiDvDSHQvXaexTQDYIZGzKvnmwaA

"The Rays will select the contract of lefty Josh Fleming from their alternate training site this weekend, manager Kevin Cash announced to reporters...The 24-year-old Fleming was a rare draftee from a Division-III program — a fifth-round pick by the Rays out of Webster University in St. Louis back in 2017. He's cruised through the minors, pitching to a combined 3.40 ERA with 6.6 K/9, 1.6 BB/9 and a ground-ball rate north of 50 percent."

hopefan

#1289
From Saturday Morning Tampa Bay Times... on Webster's Josh Fleming


Young lefty to make debut Sunday

BY JOEY JOHNSTON

Times Correspondent

ST. PETERSBURG — Responding to a steady stream of pitching injuries, the Rays plan to start left-hander Josh Fleming Sunday against the Blue Jays at Tropicana Field.

Fleming, making his majorleague debut, will get national television exposure. With the Yankees-Mets series postponed in New York, Sunday's Rays-Jays game has been shifted to TBS.

The 24-year-old will become the 10th different starter utilized by Tampa Bay this season.

The organization named Fleming as its most valuable player for Double-A Montgomery last season, based on his 11-4 record, 3.31 ERA and excellent walks-to-strikeouts ratio (walked just 19 in 127⅔ innings while striking out 92).

At 6 feet 2, 220 pounds, Fleming was a fifth-round pick in 2017 and the first selection ever out of NCAA Division III Webster University in Missouri. As a junior, he was 8-1 with an 0.68 ERA (leading Division III in that category).

Fleming, who will assume the roster spot of right-hander Yonny Chirinos (facing Tommy John surgery after an elbow injury), had "a lot of excitement when he was told,'' according to Rays manager Kevin Cash.

"It will be an exciting game for the Rays and for him, certainly,'' Cash said. "He has been throwing the ball really well down there (Port Charlotte). We're encouraged that he can provide length. He has got up to five, almost six innings of work. He showed us enough in spring training. He's a guy we like."

Cash compared Fleming to left-hander Ryan Yarbrough — more crafty than overpowering.

"He's similar to Yarbs in that he can really cut the ball, mix his pitches well, pitch off the edges and create some swing and miss by establishing strikes by using his cutter to his advantage,'' Cash said.
The only thing not to be liked in Florida is no D3 hoops!!!