Tag: Major League Baseball
Root for your favorite Chicago baseball team Friday, March 27, at the Crosstown Classic in Mesa, Ariz. NIU invites alumni and friends to its annual Cubs Park event, which includes the Cubs vs. White Sox game, a lunch buffet and unlimited beer, wine and soft drinks. The spring training event, which begins at noon with...
The final two White Sox “College & University” games are at 7:10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12, and 6:10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27. Post-game fireworks are planned both nights at U.S. Cellular Field, 333 W. 35th St. Specially priced tickets are available to all NIU students, alumni, faculty and staff and their families and friends. Lower-level...
Northern Illinois University alumni and friends have the opportunity to meet Los Angeles Dodgers General Manager Ned Colletti, a 1976 NIU graduate. Colletti will talk on the art of negotiation at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, before the Chicago Cubs take on the Dodgers at Wrigley Field. He will speak at the Brixen Ivy Rooftop,...
Former Northern Illinois pitcher Jake Hermsen (New London, Wis.) was drafted Wednesday afternoon in the 28th round, 866th overall, by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft. The southpaw hurler is the Huskies first draftee since 2008, when both Bobby Stevens (16th round, Baltimore Orioles) and Trevor Feeney (31st round, Detroit...
With spring training just around the corner, the Friends of NIU Libraries invites the public to a free, preseason preview featuring nationally known baseball writer Kevin Goldstein. Goldstein, an expert on big-league prospects who writes for Baseball Prospectus and ESPN, will deliver his “Gear up for Baseball!” presentation at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, in...
When NIU’s James Brunson, assistant vice president for Diversity & Equity in Student Affairs & Enrollment Management, received a letter from Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, he thought to himself, “How does he even know about me?” But it should come as no surprise as Brunson, after more than 25 years of tireless research,...
