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Jan 25 2008

Promising athlete gives up baseball to join military!

Posted by: Donald J. Boyles in 2008 Top Players, Pac 10

Chris Moon graduated from Tucson High School last May as the best player on the nation’s most historically successful high school baseball team.

Moon, a star pitcher, and an even better hitting prospect, spent the summer on a local American Legion team that went to the World Series. There, he won the event’s Home Run Derby.

He started this school year on a baseball scholarship as a freshman at the UA, rated by some as the No. 1 college baseball team in the nation this preseason.

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2 Responses to “Promising athlete gives up baseball to join military!”

Brian Foley says: January 26th, 2008 at 2:07 am

Very weird situation.
Summer Ball says: January 26th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

He is a true hero. More people should be like hime. God bless him.