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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Barry, I do know of Joba Chamberlain...he played for the University of Nebraska and was an All-American. He has an interesting story..he came out of Lincoln Northeast high school with little prospects, his high school coach Bill Fagler who was also my junior high school PE teacher tried to find a school that would take him and they got him into the U of Neb. Kearney which is a D2 school. He had an ERA of 5.50+, but he had an exceptional fastball and he transferred to the U of Nebraska where Rob Childress turned him into a fine pitcher. What he is doing right now with that devastating slider is unreal though...I never saw him pitch like that when he was here. It is hard for me to wish him too much success though since he plays for the Yankees and my favorite team is the Red Sox.

as a sidenote Lincoln now has two guys in the majors (the other is Alex Gordon of KC) when they hadn't had a single player in the majors since Fred Beebe last played for Cleveland in 1916.