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RBIII said...
I had a math class with Brumley. He would share some stories about baseball. The funniest one he told was when he got in Gus's doghouse once...not funny to either Brumley or Gus, but funny b/c you could see and feel the intensity of the story. Games against Ark were pretty intense. Their fans and our fans helped with home field. They were a good program and they had such a hatred for TEXAS. Thankfully we had DKR and Gus for such a long time.
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BobbyBurton said...
That was kind of my question.
Obviously, Roger Clemens is probably the best "player" to ever come through Texas. But he wasn't necessarily the best player at Texas.
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srr50 said...
If we are talking about collegiate performance, then Burt Hooton is 1 and 1A IMO.
He was the most dominant pitcher I have ever seen in college. Hooton was 35-3 with a 1.14 career ERA. He was 12-0 as a freshman with a 0.88 ERA. He was known for his pitch "the thang," a knuckle curve ball (he said he grew up thinking that a knuckle ball was actually pitched from the knuckles), but he had a quick moving fastball as well.
As a junior, Hooton was 11-2 with both losses coming at 1-0. The last game he pitched was just incredible. It was the first game of the NCAA regionals -- held at the San Antonio minor league ballpark. Back then the NCAA gave out odd numbers of invitations to the NCAA tournament and they only invited two teams to the Central Regional -- Texas and Pan American.
Pan American actually had the deeper pitching staff that year (they won 40 games) and whoever won the first game was expected to win the best of 3 series.
Hooton went for Texas and a lefty, Lupe Salinas, pitched for Pan American. Salinas gave up just five singles -- Hooton gave up four singles and struck out 16 Broncos.
The only run of the game was unearned. With two out in the 2nd, Pan American had a runner on second with a single and a passed ball. A grounder between first and second seemed to be the last out, but first baseman John Langerhans threw wide of first, Hooton couldn't handle it and the only run of the game crossed the plate.
Helluva way to finish a collegiate career.
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