Collegiate Baseball The Voice Of Amateur Baseball Started In 1958 At The Request Of Our Nation’s Baseball Coaches Vol. 63, No. 14 Friday, Oct. 2, 2020 $4.00 Lethal Righthanded Pickoff Plan Mike Maack, the prior to being injured. Since no league records were greatest mind at kept at the time for actual pickoffs designing pickoff by pitchers, it is not known if this sequences, explains was an all-time record or not by a professional pitcher. how to nab runners. His highest pickoff total in any one game was five during a professional By LOU PAVLOVICH, JR. game and five in another contest Editor/Collegiate Baseball when he pitched for Tulane during a (Final Of A 2-Part Series) contest against Florida State. Maack was previously the pitching LANO, Tex. — If you can coach at the University of Central shut down the running game Florida as his pitchers picked off an Pof opponents, the chances of NCAA record 287 over five seasons winning grow substantially. at first base. Nine years ago, Collegiate That is over 50 first base pickoffs Baseball did an extensive 2-part a year. series on the best lefthanded first The sad fact is that very little base pickoff move in history devised information is ever presented on by Mike Maack, current head coach what righthanded pitchers can do to at Prestonwood Christian Academy pick off runners at first base. (Plano, Tex.) For the first time ever, Collegiate As a southpaw pitcher in the Baseball has compiled an in-depth Minnesota Twins’ minor system in plan to shut down running games the early 1980s, he picked off 90 Mike Maack has designed an ingenius sequence to pick runners at first. runners at first base in three seasons See MIKE MAACK , Page 6 Iowa H.S. Athletic Assn. Works With 99 Counties OUTSTANDING CORONAVIRUS BATTLE PLAN LOUISIANA Protocol to keep players and coaches safe works tremendously and is a great Lake Charles model for baseball playing high schools Key Protocols or colleges across the United States. Sterlizing balls, equipment. By LOU PAVLOVICH, JR. Transportation bus plan. Editor/Collegiate Baseball Who takes temperatures? Max temperature allowed. OONE, Iowa. — Iowa was the only state that saw high school baseball played for an entire season in 2020. Every If a player tests positive. Bother state shut down high school baseball because of the Pre-existing conditions. COVID-19 pandemic. Deaths across the world are now at 921,149 as the United States Who will cancel games? leads in total deaths with 197,626. When to wash hands. Throughout the state of Iowa, there have been 1,216 deaths nd Hand sanitizers allowed. from COVID-19 which is the 32 highest state in the USA in deaths per million. Nobody is allowed in The protocol the Iowa High School Athletic Association dugouts during practices. (IHSAA) utilized for players and coaches is filled with useful Should head coaches track rules for every baseball playing state. absences by players? A small number of high school baseball players tested positive for COVID-19 during the past summer in Iowa despite thousands How is the virus primarily of games being played. transmitted to humans? The exact number of players who tested positive is not known, Administration Photo Atmospheric National Oceanic and After games, players and but only 22 teams were asked to stop playing for a period of DEVASTATING DAMAGE — Hurricane Laura, packing 158 coaches can give a tip of mph winds in Lake Charles, La, caused mass destruction in this the cap to opponents. See COVID-19 PROTOCOL WORKED, Page 10 city, including Barbe High School’s storied $3 million baseball complex. For the full story, go to page 20. Inside Collegiate Baseball Web Site: www.baseballnews.com NCAA Div. 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Directory $9.4 Million Project Finished At Cal Poly SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. donors that got behind this project. feet high, featuring 1,080-by-612 Area Code (520) — More than two years after the A big thanks to all.” pixel resolution, LED lighting Publisher: Lou Pavlovich, Jr. (Call 623-4530) old clubhouse was demolished at “I am amazed at the support and and 10-millimeter pixel pitch, was Editor: Lou Pavlovich, Jr. (Call 623-4530 to report stories) Cal Poly’s Baggett Stadium, the grit of the Cal Poly community, installed prior to the 2019 season. 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In February, Cal Poly announced 2020 Publication Schedule and donors which includes a “The Dignity Health Baseball a $1 million gift from Bill Hoffman kitchen, meeting and study space Clubhouse will not only provide a for the final phase of the four- January 3 March 6 May 1 September 4 and a balcony for outdoor viewing big-time advantage for our program year project to upgrade Baggett January 24 March 20 May 15 October 2 on the field and in recruiting February 7 April 3 June 12 of games). Stadium. February 21 April 17 July 10 It also includes the Maas Family battles, but it will also enhance the The gift jump-starts a group of Locker Room, Krukow Athletes development of the players and improvements at Baggett Stadium, Lounge and Kitchen, Burns Family team culture off the field.” including an improved entrance to Foundation Sports Medicine Demolition of the old clubhouse the baseball and softball facilities, Moving? 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