Bryan David Hickerson (born October 13, 1963) is a former
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), ...
pitcher
In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...
who played for the
San Francisco Giants
The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball team based in San Francisco, California. The Giants compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Founded in 1883 as the New Y ...
,
Chicago Cubs, and
Colorado Rockies from 1991 to 1995.
Biography
A native of
Bemidji, Minnesota
Bemidji ( ) is a city and the county seat of Beltrami County, in northern Minnesota, United States. The population was 14,574 at the 2020 census. According to 2021 census estimates, the city is estimated to have a population of 15,279, making i ...
, Hickerson graduated from
Bemidji High School and the
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...
. In 1985, he played
collegiate summer baseball with the
Cotuit Kettleers
The Cotuit Kettleers are a collegiate summer baseball team based in the village of Cotuit, Massachusetts, which is in the southwest corner of the town of Barnstable. The team is a member of the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL) and plays in the lea ...
of the
Cape Cod Baseball League.
Hickerson was selected by the
Minnesota Twins in the 7th round of the
1986 MLB Draft, and was traded to the
San Francisco Giants
The San Francisco Giants are an American professional baseball team based in San Francisco, California. The Giants compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. Founded in 1883 as the New Y ...
in 1987. He made his major league debut with San Francisco in 1991, and appeared in 202 games over a five year major league career.
Hickerson is currently on staff with U.P.I., a baseball ministry in Winona Lake, Indiana, where he lives with his wife Jo and children,
and is director of Intercession Haiti.
References
External links
Major League Baseball pitchers
Baseball players from Minnesota
San Francisco Giants players
Chicago Cubs players
Colorado Rockies players
1963 births
Living people
Minnesota Golden Gophers baseball players
Cotuit Kettleers players
Visalia Oaks players
Shreveport Captains players
Clinton Giants players
San Jose Giants players
Phoenix Firebirds players
Minor league baseball coaches
{{US-baseball-pitcher-1960s-stub