Penn State Nittany Lions Jewelry, Watches and Accessories

 

The Penn State Nittany Lions baseball team was established in 1875. The team had a very interesting start.  According to different sources, one day in 1875, a crowd had gathered on the Old main on the Pennsylvania campus. The crowd was watching a young man with a baseball in hand, and three stakes arranged in a straight line. On the other end of the arranged stakes was another young man. The young man with the baseball threw the ball which hit the right side of the first stake, hit the second stake on the left and then hit the right side of the last stake before it was caught by the other young man. It was what they say a curve-ball pitch and the young man responsible for doing it was John Montgomery Ward or simply “Monte”. He was one of the very first players to wear the Penn State colors. He was one of the founding members of the first Penn State.

 

Ward was enrolled at the school since he was thirteen years old, but sadly he never graduated from the school. He was expelled for allegedly stealing chickens despite the repeated warning s from school administrators. He finished his Bachelor as well as his law Degree from the Columbia University. He was later on inducted into the Baseball hall of fame in 1964.

 

The Penn State Nittany Lions continued to produce great baseball players, including Joe Tepsic who has the JOE TEPSIC Brooklyn Signed 8x10 Photo PSA/DNA, Nate Bump who has the Nate Bump & Nate Cornejo Autographed Baseball Card 1999 Topps Baseball Card Draft Picks (Giants - Tigers) , Mike Scioscia, D. J. Dozier, and David Aardsma.

 

In the 2010, another group of Penn State star baseball players became available for Draft into the Major League, junior catcher Ben Heath, Mike Wanamaker, Heath Johnson, Pennsylvania natives Kyle Redinger and Austin Urban.