Tag: Baseball
12 article(s) found with this tag.
Scoring position: A man buys his hometown team
Summer 2012
In the 1970s, when Mikal Thomsen ’79 was a budding business student
at WSU, he earned his tuition by compiling the stats for the football,
basketball, and baseball teams. The job not only let him parlay an
interest in numbers and sports into ...
Categories: Athletics, Business
Tags: Baseball, Tacoma
John E. Olerud ’65—Science is a lot like baseball
Summer 2012
Whether he’s studying how wounds heal or he’s tagging a runner out at
home plate, John E. Olerud ’65 knows two techniques to succeed: work
hard and stick with it.Olerud credits those lessons to the man who recruited him to
Washington Stat...
Categories: Alumni, Athletics, Health sciences
Tags: Baseball, Dermatology, Regents' Distinguished Alumnus Award, Doctors
A Coug’s Numbers, A Hollywood Story
Winter 2011
By traditional baseball standards, Scott Hatteberg’s big league days were numbered.He had been a Cougar standout, team captain, Most Valuable Player,
and catcher for future All-Star Aaron Sele, with whom he went to the Red
Sox in 1991. But ...
Categories: Alumni, Mathematics, Athletics
Tags: Statistics, Sabermetrics, Moneyball, Baseball
John Olerud x’88: Faith, Hope, and Horses
Winter 2011
John Olerud was not
enamored with New York City during his playing
days with the Toronto Blue Jays.
“Every time we went there and played
I was so intimidated by the city.” he recalls. “I
just thought, man, it was just a matter of tim...
Categories: Alumni, Athletics
Tags: Disabilities, Major League Baseball, Baseball
Tools for training
Fall 2010
Early one afternoon in
June, former head football coach Jim Walden drops by the newly-renovated
WSU Athletics weight room to check in on the project.Just a few students are w...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Athletic facilities, Weight training, Rowing, Baseball
Dave Edler - "A real tough kid"
Fall 2008
During his years as a Cougar baseball player, Dave Edler
got chewed out many times by Bobo Brayton for his wild and
headstrong ways. Once, Brayton caught his young star using
marijuana. Edler told the coach that his father didn't mind.
"...
Categories: Alumni, Athletics
Tags: Baseball, Politicians
Baseball's my game
Summer 2007
"Bobo's my name, baseball's my game," says Frederick Charles
"Bobo" Brayton as he sits down across from me. His face crinkles
into a grin. "That's what I tell everybody."At age 81, Brayton doesn't appear intimidating--former
Washington State Unive...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Baseball
Kelly Smith
Spring 2006
You don't want to be around him when he loses...Kelly Smith harbors such desire to win, that the coach gets
testy for days before an ordinary baseball game. From the first
pitch to the last, he's usually demonstrative, typically
pessimistic, and o...
Categories: Alumni, Athletics
Tags: Coach, Baseball
Baseball is a Family
Spring 2005
We hear about his time with the Padres; about teammates Dave Winfield,
Willie McCovey, and Tito Fuentes; how he'd faced Hank Aaron and Johnny
Bench and Pete Rose and Joe Morgan; and how a tear of his rotator cuff
had brought an end to his major league career.
Categories: Athletics, Alumni
Tags: Baseball
Brayton has his day in the sun, as WSU retires his number
Fall 2003
Dan Wodrich couldn't attend Bobo Brayton's banquet. He wanted to
be there when Washington State University honored its winningest
coach May 24 by retiring baseball jersey no. 14. He played
second base for Brayton in 1977-80, fulfilling a dre...
Categories: Athletics, Alumni
Tags: Coach, Baseball
Mooney banking on improved pitching
Spring 2002
Good pitching is like money in the bank. It’s there when you
need it, and it can carry you over the rough spots.That’s the philosophy of Washington State University baseball
coach Tim Mooney.Last season, Mooney’s first at WSU, quality pitchin...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Baseball
Mariner Mania
Winter 2001
“You kinda have to pinch yourself every day.”
—Alex WoodEVERYONE LOVES A WINNER. Home attendance at Seattle’s
47,116-seat Safeco Field exceeded three million in 2001. Baseball fans
arrived early. They came to watch batting practice, se...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Baseball, Seattle Mariners