On Wednesday, the second day of the 2009 Major League Baseball amateur draft, Kansas University shortstop David Narodowski learned of his professional fate much the way baseball fans across the country did — by calling up MLB.com’s live draft tracker and watching the drama play out one pick ...
Five Kansas University baseball players were selected by major-league organizations in the second day of the Major League Baseball first-year player draft. Left-handed pitcher Sam Freeman (St. Louis), outfielder Ryne Price (San Francisco), left-handed pitcher Nick Czyz (Seattle), right-handed ...
Five KU baseball players were drafted on day two of the Major League draft.
Former Kansas University baseball player Travis Metcalf was optioned Wednesday to the Texas Rangers' Triple-A farm club in Oklahoma City.Metcalf began the season on the disabled list with a left hamstring tear and appeared in one game after being activated on May 8.
Former Kansas University pitcher Mike Zagurski will open the baseball season on the Philadelphia Phillies' 15-day disabled list.Zagurski, a left-handed reliever, underwent hamstring surgery last August and is still rehabbing. Zagurski has thrown off the mound this spring, but has not appeared ...
Somehow Bob Edmondson fell through the cracks.For decades, Ralph Houk has been listed as the first Lawrence High product to play baseball in the major leagues. Not true.That distinction belongs to Edmondson, who toiled for the Washington Senators a hundred years ago.According to the record ...
Rob Thomson, a catcher in the early '80s for Kansas University and a member of the New York Yankees' organization for 19 years now, recently was promoted to serve as new manager Joe Girardi's bench coach.It's a huge career break for Thomson, who has served in a variety of instructional and ...
Asked to predict what will be the enduring legacy of Bud Selig's tenure as commissioner of Major League Baseball, most baseball fans likely would say the cancellation of the 1994 World Series and the explosion of steroid use.Not so fast, urges former Kansas University Chancellor Gene Budig, who ...
