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Mark Romanczuk
Mark J. Romanczuk represented the United States in numerous international baseball tournaments. He was born September 24, 1983, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He won a silver medal for the nation's USA Baseball, national team in the Baseball at the 2003 Pan American Games, 2003 Pan American Games. In the 2004 World University Baseball Championship, he won a gold medal. Romanczuk also won the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, Louisville Slugger Freshman of the Year award in 2003, alongside pitcher Glen Perkins, catcher Jeff Clement and pitcher Stephen Head, while a pitcher at Stanford University. He played four seasons professionally after being drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 4th round of the 2005 Major League Baseball Draft. He was 12–17 with a 5.14 ERA in 71 pro games. In 2016 he was inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame, Delaware Sports Hall of Fame. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Romanczuk, Mark 1983 births Living people United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball that a player on the batting team, called the batter, tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team (batting team) is to hit the ball into the field of play, away from the other team's players, allowing its players to run the bases, having them advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called " runs". The objective of the defensive team (referred to as the fielding team) is to prevent batters from becoming runners, and to prevent runners' advance around the bases. A run is scored when a runner legally advances around the bases in order and touches home plate (the place where the player started as a batter). The principal objective of the batting team is to have a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
