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  The Ballplayers - Orel Hershiser | BaseballLibrary.com
At his peak in the 1980s, Orel Hershiser was at the top of the National League, the ace of a stacked Los Angeles Dodger rotation.
Hershiser was promoted through the Dodgers system to the bigs in 1983, and was placed in the bullpen for his first full season in 1984.
Hershiser was known to be a giving personality in the community as well as the clubhouse, getting heavily involved in many charities, including the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the Harambee Preparatory School in Los Angeles.
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  Orel Hershiser   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Orel Leonard Quinton Hershiser IV (born September 16, 1958 in Buffalo, New York) is an American former right-handed pitcher, and current pitching coach, in Major League Baseball.
Hershiser almost did not pitch in the 10th inning, in deference to Drysdale, but was convinced by the Hall of Famer to take the mound and try to break the record.
Hershiser returned after the injury to still be an excellent pitcher, but he never regained his level of brilliance of the late 1980s.
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hershiser was born in Buffalo, New York to Mildred I. Gillman and Orel Leonard Hershiser III.
Hershiser was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 17th round of the 1979 amateur draft and was assigned to their farm team in Clinton, Iowa.
Orel Hershiser is the brother of Gordie Hershiser, who played minor league for the Dodgers organization, and later became a TV sportscaster on various stations, including Fox News Channel with Steve Doocy.
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  Orel Hershiser - ExampleProblems.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Orel Leonard Hershiser IV (born September 16, 1958 in Buffalo, New York) is an American former professional right-handed pitcher, and current pitching coach, for the Texas Rangers.
Hershiser almost did not pitch in the 10th inning, in deference to Drysdale, but was convinced by the Hall of Famer to take the mound and try to break the record.
Hershiser returned after the injury to still be an excellent pitcher, but he never regained his level of brilliance of the late 1980s.
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 Boston Red Sox - A bulldog mentality - The Boston Globe
But before Hershiser emerged as a big winner for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the late 1980s, setting a big league record for consecutive scoreless innings (59), mound presence was as pressing an issue for him as it was for last night's Red Sox starter, Derek Lowe.
Unlike Lowe, Hershiser never summoned the media to disavow them of the notion that he was a head case.
Hershiser said he's unsure how visible his uncertainty was on the mound, but acknowledged Lasorda might have seen something.
www.boston.com /sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2004/07/11/a_bulldog_mentality   (952 words)

  
 Orel Hershiser | BaseballLibrary.com
Hershiser will not miss another start until he injures his shoulder in 1990, and Sutcliffe will not lose again in the regular season.
Hershiser was 14-14 with a 3.85 ERA in 1986.
OF Richard Hidalgo is hit by two of Hershiser's pitches, and is also plunked by reliever Matt Herges, to tie another ML mark.
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 Orel Hershiser | The BASEBALL Page
Nicknamed "Bulldog" for his intense desire, Orel Hershiser was one of the most dominant pitchers of the 1980s when he was healthy.
Rebounding from severe arm surgery, Hershiser went on to win 204 games in his 18-year career.
Hershiser had major reconstructive surgery on his right elbow in 1990.
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 Los Angeles Dodgers - Great 'wood' work not found in Hollywood
There were two amazing performances put on by two Dodgers, Kirk Gibson and Orel Hershiser.
He was hobbled up to the plate in the 9th and the rest was history.
Orel Hershiser pitched 18 innings, had 17 strike outs, and only allowed two runs on his way to a World Series MVP.
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 ESPN.com: Orel Hershiser Profile & Scouting Report
Hershiser's sinker always has been his money pitch, but he rarely hits 90 MPH with it these days.
Hershiser remains a first-rate fielder, though his aggressiveness occasionally leads to errors.
Hershiser became a free agent again and signed a one-year deal with the Dodgers for $2 million.
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 BGSUsports.com - Orel Hershiser   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The disappointment in being cut along with failing grades caused him to leave school abruptly, hitchhiking his way east until the car he was riding in was involved in an accident in Pennsylvania.
Orel enrolled in summer school at BG, and his grades improved.
Hershiser was inducted to the BG Athletic Hall of Fame in 1985.
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 Hershiser and the Fountain (?) of Youth
 Hershiser's boyish looks and his strong religious convictions lend credence to that interpretation, but they also mask a competitive streak as long and wide as an interstate and the heart of an assassin.
When Hershiser was still with the Dodgers, he pitched against the Marlins at Pro Player Stadium in their first-ever game there.
Hershiser answered the question by going 16-6 in his first season with the Indians, the most wins since his 1988 Cy Young season.
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 Orel Hershiser Information
Orel Leonard Hershiser IV (born September 16, 1958 in Buffalo, New York) is a former professional right-handed pitcher and Executive Director for the Texas Rangers.
Hershiser attended Cherry Hill High School East in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, where he was the star pitcher on the school's baseball team.
The Dodgers' anemic offense was obliging, however, and Hershiser pitched the first 10 innings of a scoreless tie, with the Padres eventually prevailing 2–1 in 16 innings.
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 Amazon.com: Orel Hershiser: Up close and personal: Books: Bill Horlacher   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Orel Hershiser: Up Close and Personal is not really a biography of Orel Hershiser, although it does discuss his life.
Orel Hershiser had just finished an amazing season: he had set a Major League record by throwing fifty-nine consecutive scoreless innings, he had won the Cy Young Award, and he had been named the MVP of the World Series.
Orel Hershiser: Up Close and Personal, written by Bill Horlacher and Joe Smalley, was probably distributed for the most part by interested coaches or parents among young baseball players.
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 HickokSports.com - Biography - Orel Hershiser
He won the league's Cy Young Award and was named male athlete of the year by the Associated Press in 1988, when he led the NL in victories with a 23-8 record, in complete games with 15, in shutouts with 8, and in innings pitched with 267.
Hershiser joined the Dodgers for 8 appearances at the end of the 1983 season and became a regular starter in 1984.
Hershiser then rejoined the Dodgers for a brief stint in 2000, but he retired before the season ended.
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 Hershiser bombed in worst postseason start
On a hot, humid night, he repeatedly doused his head with water in the dugout -- a habit that led to speculation by Baltimore manager Davey Johnson that he was throwing a wet ball.
Despite his age, Hershiser sprinted to first and was thrown out for the last out of the Cleveland fourth.
Hershiser was the losing pitcher on April 5, 1993, as the Marlins defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-3 to win their inaugural game before a sellout crowd of 42,334 at then-Joe Robbie Stadium.
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 KFFL - Orel Hershiser, SP, Retired Players
The remaining candidates are current Athletics bench coach Bob Geren, ESPN analyst Orel Hershiser and Colorado Rockies bench coach Jamie Quirk.
The Associated Press reports former MLB SP Orel Hershiser left his front-office job with the Texas Rangers less than three months after he resigned as the team's pitching coach.
Hershiser met with Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and was joined by Dodgers special advisor to the chairman and former manager Tommy Lasorda, who took an active role in the interview.
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 Orel Hershiser Speaker - Book Celebrity Talent Agency Speakers Bureau
Orel Hershiser has also been recognized as Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year, The Sporting News Player of the Year, Baseball America’s Pitcher of the Year, Associated Press Athlete of the Year and United Press International Comeback Player of the Year.
But those accolades only scratch the surface of who Orel Hershiser really is. During his playing days, he wasn’t just a pitcher - he was a pitching coach, a manager, a general manager, an all-around professor of the game.
Orel has transcribed his baseball and life experiences in his own words in Out of the Blue, a unique sports autobiography.
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 AHN | Hershiser Interviews For Oakland's Open Manager Position | April 9, 2007
The 48-year-old Hershiser was a pitching coach for the Texas Rangers last season before joining the ESPN "Baseball Tonight" panel.
Hershiser had a 204-149 regular-season record with 2,014 strikeouts and a 3.48 ERA in 16 seasons with the Dodgers, Indians, Giants and Mets.
Hershiser, instead, decided to resign as Rangers pitching coach and work as an executive within the Texas organization prior to joining ESPN.
www.allheadlinenews.com /articles/7005293036   (497 words)

  
 OrelHershiser - SE/Linux 2 - wiki
Orel Hershiser is a former baseball player and I decided to use his name, as the name for the program I wrote, actually those are two separate programs, they are used as a monitoring tool in a cluster environment.
Hershiser may be invoked on a single node of a cluster, and it returns specific information about a node, the type and content of a response from Hershiser is controlled with Orel.
Principle: Orel should be installed on a host which has access to every required host, what it does is to iterate over a list of hosts and passes over ssh an XML RPC request to the current host, receives and processes the reply, finally it displays the result of the call.
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 Orel's Back With The Club? I Wish I Still Cared
Hershiser's historic performance in the last eight weeks of the 1988 season carried the Dodgers to the Western Division title, a seven-game NLCS triumph over a vastly superior New York Mets team, and an improbable five-game World Series victory over the mighty Oakland A's.
Orel Hershiser did not allow a run to score from the end of August until the 8th inning of Game 1 of the 1988 NLCS against New York, a span of 67 consecutive innings, including a record 59 in the regular season.
Orel Hershiser is a bright light in the clubhouse and a mature, stable influential character to have around young players.
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 White Sox to White House, but Guillen's a no-show | www.azstarnet.com ®   (Site not responding. Last check: )
● Orel Hershiser is rejoining ESPN and will be a studio analyst for the network this season.
Hershiser, a former NL Cy Young Award winner, was an analyst for ESPN and ABC during the Little League World Series from 2000-01 and was on ESPN's major-league Wednesday telecasts during 2001.
He joined the Texas Rangers in November 2001 as an associate to former general manager John Hart, became pitching coach in June 2002, then was shifted in November to executive assistant to team president Jeff Cogen.
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 Orel Hershiser
And so I know that Orel's smooth delivery was more like a piston firing than a lung exhaling, that it was the function of labor and training, and that there was nothing automatic about it.
Which leads me to say that Orel Hershiser has had a long and what I imagine to be satisfying career.
If Orel is, in my mind, the flawless and fearless leader of a too-good-to-be-hoped-for World Series run, he must also be the guy who aged and struggled, whose mechanics and machinery ultimately let him down.
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 Orel Hershiser information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Known during his career for his slight frame and fierce spirit of competition, Hershiser was nicknamed "Bulldog" by team manager, Tommy Lasorda.
Orel Hershiser is the brother of Gordie Hershiser, who played minor league for the Dodgers organization, and later became a TV sportscaster on various stations, including Fox News Channel with Steve Doocy.
In October 2005, Hershiser interviewed for the position of manager with the Los Angeles Dodgers, which had been vacated by Jim Tracy earlier that month, but instead opted to resign from his current job as the Ranger's pitching coach and join their front office as Executive Director.
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 Anthony McFarland
During his successful career as a Major League pitcher, Orel Hershiser earned the nickname, “Bulldog.” It was for good reason: He squared off against his opponents with great tenacity.
Hershiser knows the importance of relationships and how vital they are, especially when a ballplayer has retired or the season has ended.
Hershiser accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior in 1979 at the age of 21.
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 Flashback: Orel Hershiser's 1988 season: Dodger right-hander entered the record books by hurling 59 consecutive ...
Like Maddux, Hershiser was a right-handed sinkerball artist who not only painted the corners with precision, but thrived in the heat of a pennant race.
With Hershiser on a roll, the light-hitting Dodgers couldn't be taken lightly by their post-season opponents.
Hershiser had a 6-0 three-hitter in Game 2 and a another complete-game win, 5.2, on a four-hitter in the decisive fifth game.
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 Who is Orel Hershiser? - Ask.com Web Search
Orel Leonard Hershiser IV (born September 16, 1958 in Buffalo, New York) is a former professional right-handed pitcher and is a former Executive Director for the Texas Rangers.
Orel Hershiser batting, fielding and pitching major league baseball lifetime statistics for each season and his career, and a list of any...
Orel Leonard Hershiser IV (born September 16, 1958 in Buffalo, New York) is a former professional right-handed pitcher and is currently an...
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 Orel Hershiser's Strike Zone download @ Game Downloads   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A conversion of the coin-up game of the same name by Leland Corp., Orel Hershiser's Strike Zone is a great action-oriented baseball game starring baseball's star of the same name.
Nicknamed "The Bulldog" by fans, Orel Hershisers led the Los Angeles Dodgers to capture World Championship in 1988, winning MVP awards for both NLCS and the World Series in that year.
Orel isn't a full-fledged baseball simulation by any means, but for anyone looking to do a quick homer, this is as good as it gets.
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