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The baseball team of Clemson is known to represent the Clemson University in the NCAA Division I college baseball. They are also known to be part of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The head coach at the current time is Jack Leggett. Since the early years, there have only been two coach changes.

Long before Jack Leggett took over coaching in 2000, it had been Bill Winheim who had coached the Clemson baseball team during the period from the 1970’s to the 1990’s. The Doug Kingsmore Stadium which is the Clemson home ground stadium is said to be able to accommodate a crowd of up to 6217 spectators and fans and is known to be the grounds on which the Clemson baseball team plays all their home games.

Having an average of 40 wins in the last 21 games, Clemson is renowned for winning games consistently and have had many of their players signing in for Major League once they leave the University. Their uniform colors are burnt orange and northwestern purple.

Amongst some great names that played for them are Jeff Baker, Kris Neson, Jerry Brooks, Brian Barnes, and Mike Brown. Since there are some names that are more familiar than others, we will take a closer look at them for the moment.

Scott Winchester who was born on the 20th April 1973 was a right handed pitcher and was one of the first from the Clemson University to go major League by signing in for Cincinnati Reds and playing his first game on 8th Sept. 1977. When Scott retired on 9th August 2001, having played his last game for the Reds, his performance was not really reflected in his stats which red as a 3:8 win loss ratio, an earned run average of 5.42 and 55 strike outs.

Born on 5th December 1974, playing as a pitcher, Ken Vining was another popular player who joined the Chicago White sox and made his debut appearance on 23rd May 2001. Not much later however, he made his last appearance for the Sox on 5th July of the same year.

He was another player who’s career statistics did not show a true reflection of what he was capable of. He had an ERA of 17.55 and only three strike outs.

Matt White was a relief pitcher for the Red Sox. He was born on August 19th, 1977 and made his debut for the Boston Red Sox on May 27th, 2003. His career varied amongst a number of teams. Matt was known not only to play for Boston Red Sox, but also played for Seattle Mariners, Washington Nationals, Yokohama BayStars and the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions.

His career statistics show that he had a win loss ratio of 0-2 with an earned run average of 16.76. Matt was also only able to make three strike outs. Seeing from his career, it shows that Matt was a much better player in the field in comparison to statistical numbers.

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