Ripken League Focus: Loaded Redbirds
For those of us still lamenting the departure of Thomas Eshelman from college baseball, maybe Emerson Gibbs can provide some temporary relief.
Eshelman, of course, was a national treasure — the Patron Saint of Strike-Throwers. He opened his Cal State Fullerton career with 63.1 consecutive innings of walk-free ball, and then he began his sophomore season with 63 innings before issuing his first walk.
Gibbs, a rising senior righthander for Tulane, has turned in a similar performance for the Baltimore Redbirds in the Cal Ripken Collegiate League this summer. In 50 Ripken League innings (42 in the[…]
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