Bobby Kingsbury

Bobby Kingsbury (born August 30, 1980) in Cleveland, Ohio, is a two-time Atlantic 10 Player of the Year and went on to play in the Pittsburgh Pirates minor-league organization. Kingsbury was the first baseball player to earn back-to-back Atlantic 10 Player of the Year Awards, in 2001 and 2002. He went to school at Fordham where he set an NCAA record for stolen bases in a game (8), and was drafted by the Pirates in the 8th round of the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft, but his excellent glove, a quick bat, an intelligent hitting approach, and his work ethic could have given him a third or fourth-round pick if he'd gone to a warm-weather college.

During the 2004 Summer Olympics Games held in Athens, Greece, Kingsbury, who has a Greek grandmother, was given the chance to playing for the host nation, Greece. Most of the players on the Greek Baseball team was up of Americans with Greek heritage, including North Florida coach Dusty Rhodes, and White Sox scout John Kazanas, Clay Bellinger of the Orioles, outfielders Nick Markakis the Orioles and Nick Theodorou of the Dodgers, and catchers Mike Tonis of Royals and George Kottaras of the Padres.

Kingsbury, an alumnus of the Fordham University Baseball team and current member of the Pittsburgh Pirates organization, picked up one of the biggest hits of the tournament for Greece, an RBI triple, in their lone win, which came against Italy in the preliminary round.

External links

* [http://www.thebaseballcube.com/players/K/Bobby-Kingsbury.shtml Kingsbury's minor-league statistics] at The Baseball Cube.