GTBBaseball Posted March 5, 2011 Report Posted March 5, 2011 Legendary coach Gary Ward is an assistant coach with New Mexico State who is in town with Cal State-Northridge and Univ San Francisco at Lamar University today.Mr Gary Ward was the innovator of the "Blast" system with hitting when he was "The Man" in college baseball in the 80's at Oklahoma State, a annual participant at Rosenblatt with notable players such as Robin Ventura(58game hitting streak-NCAA Record) and Pete Incaviglia(48homeruns one season-NCAA Record) as well as bypass all 3 levels of minor league baseball and played his first Professional Game in the big leagues never seeing a minor league field....Id recommend all those who's high school games rained out, go watch some good division 1 level baseball over at Vincent Beck... The days of the 5 power conferences(SEC-Big12-ACC-Pac10) verse mid-major conferences isnt such a large "gap" anymore competitive wise and talent base wise... the 35man locker rooms n increase in facility budgets has closed that gap alot, its why we see so many mid-majors now winning more games vs the power conferences as well as midmajors getting to Omaha not so far-fetched anymore....These high school guys need to see more and more of the game at the collegaite level...'All game times are probably pushed back today so from 3pm on till 10, Id imagine college baseball WILL be played today....Fackler
OldNedDog Posted March 6, 2011 Report Posted March 6, 2011 I had the pleasure of going to Stillwater for a week of Gary Ward's baseball camp in the late 80's. I quickly found out that he was an innovator in hitting. I tried to keep up with OSU baseball after that, but lost interest when Holliday took over. Makes me wonder if Eskimo Joe's cheese fries are still around? ;D
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