John Kerr in 1962
Good article - what stood out to me was John Kerr in the regional.
Dave Campbell played on the 1962 national championship team and then spent eight seasons in Major League baseball. He had a long television career as a baseball analyst. He has followed this team closely, in part because of his ’62 teammate and close friend John Kerr, whose grandson, Jimmy, is the Wolverines’ starting first baseman. To this day, Campbell gets choked up discussing Kerr’s amazing back-to-back pitching performance in the NCAA regional in 1962 on 20 minutes rest. He pitched 10 innings in the first game, 9 in the next and threw 313 pitches to win both games, and Campbell calls it “the greatest one-day performance ever” in the history of Michigan baseball. He is still waiting for Kerr to be inducted into the Michigan Athletic Hall of Honor.
The coach would be arrested if a pitcher threw 300+ pitches in one day in 2019.
How times have changed!
Here I am... stuck at work, anyone willing to post a Twitch TV link or something; think I can sneak that on a second monitor here.
Kerr story truly amazing. Superhuman effort.
Let's get it done today.
Go Blue.
Wow. Never knew these facts. I'm not sure how it's humanly possible to hurl 19 innings in a doubleheader separated by 20 minutes rest. This has to be one of the single greatest UM sporting feats.
Johnny Kerr has to be one of the most unsung Wolverine heroes EVER.