January 16, 2008
Curt Karpinski Inducted into Ohio High School Coaches Hall of Fame
Baldwin-Wallace College hall of fame pitcher Curt Karpinski will be inducted into the Ohio High School Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame on Friday at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Columbus.
Curt was an outstanding pitcher for the Yellow Jackets from 1969 to 1972, compiling an 8–5 record and a 2.21 earned run average in 29 appearances and striking out 149 batters in 122 innings. He was the Ohio Athletic Conference strikeout champion in 1971 and topped the conference in 1972 with a 6–0 record and a 0.63 ERA — the lowest ever recorded by a B-W pitcher. He holds the school record for the lowest career ERA along with fellow hall of famer Bob Love ’68, and he allowed fewer hits per game than any other pitcher in B-W history.
After graduating from Baldwin-Wallace, Curt signed a free agent contract with the Cleveland Indians and spent two years in their minor league system before injuries ended his career. In his rookie season, he struck out 70 batters in 66 innings and posted a 1.77 ERA, earning him a spot on the Gulf Coast League’s all-star team.
In 1988, after a successful stint as the head baseball coach at Oberlin College, he was hired for the top job at Elyria High School. Over the next 17 seasons, he guided the Pioneers to a 236–148 (.615) record and won six conference championships, five sectional titles, three district crowns and a trip to the Ohio High School Athletic Association Final Four in 1992.
Several of the ballplayers he mentored at Elyria went on to successful careers at his alma mater, including recent All-OAC outfielders Brian Johnson ’01 and Matt Green ’06, and All–Mideast Region catcher Joey Dallas ’93, who followed him into the B-W Athletic Hall of Fame in 2006.
Friday’s ceremony will mark Curt’s third induction into an athletic hall of fame. He was inducted into B-W’s hall of fame in 1992, and he was a member of the inaugural hall of fame class at his high school alma mater, Keystone High School, in 1997.
[ B-W Baseball Athletic Hall of Famers ]
January 14, 2008
Check Out the 2007 Holiday Skills Camp Photo Album
The Baldwin-Wallace College baseball team held its annual Holiday Skills Camp from December 27 to 29 at the Lou Higgins Recreation Center, and more than 50 young ballplayers from all over Northeast Ohio traveled to Berea to learn the fundamentals of baseball from B-W’s coaches and players.
You can check out photos of all the action in our Holiday Skills Camp Photo Album.
This year’s photos are hosted by the Flickr photo sharing website. Flickr lets us display larger photos than we were able to in the past, and its layout is easier to navigate than our old Slooze-powered albums. Best of all, moving our photo albums to Flickr means that you can now add comments to our photos and download the original image files to your own computer.
