[OT] Cornellians in MLB

[RichH]

[Q]JS '93 Wrote:

 Anyone know how many Ivy Leaguers are now playing in MLB?

I only know of one player right now (there must be more??)--Chris Young--SP--Texas Rangers--Princeton Grad and 6'10" Rookie that has great potential and very solid stats to date.  

I know Doug Glanville was from Penn, but I believe he is retired.    [/q]

I'm quite certain that Brad Ausmus went to Dartmouth, and I remember watching Mark DeRosa destroy Cornell in football as Penn's QB.  Doug Glanville signed a minor league deal with the Yankees this year, but was released during spring training.  You can call it "retirement" if you wish.

A much better statistical-oriented website also has a collegiate section: http://www.baseball-reference.com/schools/

Several years ago, I remember reading/hearing a rumor that there was an Indians pitcher (from the 1990's) who attended Cornell for his freshman year before transferring somewhere else....some quick mind-jogging and research shows that it was Charles Nagy.  According to Uncle Ezra, http://ezra.cornell.edu/posting.php?timestamp=881211600#question11

[Q]Charles Nagy did not graduate from Cornell, but did spend some time in Ithaca at CU as a first-year student.  Nagy played defensive back on the freshman football team in 1985, then transferred to the University of Connecticut to play baseball.[/Q]

There's also an article about Cornellians currently toiling in the minors near the bottom of this page:  http://cornell-magazine.cornell.edu/Currentissue/depts/Currents.html

[Pete Godenschwager]

Then there's this guy:
http://cornellbigred.collegesports.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/061205aaa.html

He must've been hot as crap in that uniform this weekend!

[RichH]

Just to tie in relevance, I can think of two MLB pitchers who excelled at hockey.  

One, Kirk McCaskill was captain at UVM and a Hobey Baker finalist in 1982.  He was a 4th round pick in both hockey and baseball drafts.  He wound up having an 11-year pitching career with the Angels and White Sox.  http://www.hockeydraftcentral.com/1981/81064.html
[Q]Wore No. 21 at Winnipeg's training camp in 1983, but failed to impress Winnipeg coach Barry Long, who commented "McCaskill plays hockey the way he plays baseball -- once every four days."[/Q]
The other, Tom Glavine, enrolled at Lowell, but turned down a hockey scholarship there to persue his baseball career.  He was drafted in the 4th round in the NHL draft and 2nd round in the MLB draft.  After 2 Cy Young awards, a World Series MVP, and an outside chance at reaching the 300 win club, I'd say he made the right choice.
http://www.hockeydraftcentral.com/1984/84069.html

[Trotsky]

[Q]Pete Godenschwager Wrote:
He must've been hot as crap in that uniform this weekend!
[/q]

Now that is a cute old man. :-)   I can imagine the event organizers, in the stands, thinking "ohgodpleasedon'tdieohgodpleasedon'tdieohgodpleasedon'tdieohgodpleasedon'tdieohgodpleasedon'tdieohgodpleasedon'tdieohgodpleasedon'tdieohgodpleasedon'tdieohgodpleasedon'tdieohgodpleasedon'tdie..."

[jkahn]

Another baseball player who was a star high school hockey player was Richie Hebner, third baseman mostly for the Pirates.  From the Boston area, he purportedly was offered contracts by both the Bruins and Red Wings organizations, but chose baseball and had a long successful career.  At the time of his choice in the late '60's, I think there was only one other American in NHL (Tommy Williams), so the chances of success probably seemed slim to most American kids, and he obviously had great baseball skills as well.

One Cornell shortstop did turn out to by a pretty good NHLer - Ken Dryden.  I suppose many younger folk reading here might not know he was a two sport Cornellian.