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Baseball player Jeff Maier
'06 has received national media attention this month for breaking Wesleyan's
career hits record. |
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| Posted 04.17.06 |
Student-Athlete Breaks Team Record for Hits
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Jeff Maier '06 a government major and third
baseman on the varsity baseball team set the all-time record for most hits
in a career against Bates College on April 12. During the game he finished
2-for-3, doubling twice, to give him 170 career hits. Prior to the game he
posted four of the Cardinals' 13 hits during a double-header with Middlebury
at home April 9 to tie Bill Robinson '03 for the team lead in career hits
with 168.
Maier's achievement has been chronicled in more than 35 newspapers in the
United States and Canada, including a front-page story in The New York
Times. He has also been featured on local news and ESPN.
The New York interest is particularly acute since Maier gained a measure of
fame there 10 years ago for catching a ball hit by Derek Jeter of the New
York Yankees during the American League Championship game. The ball was
headed for the glove of a Baltimore Orioles player but Maier's reach-over
catch made it a home run and the Yankees went on to win the American League
Pennant and the World Series.
As of April 13, Maier ranks first on the squad with a .404 batting average.
Wesleyan won the game, beating Bates 14-2. Baseball has been played at
Wesleyan since 1865 when the university played its first game, which was
against Yale University. |
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| By David Pesci, director
of Media Relations and Brian Katten, director of Sports Information |
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