ABCA/Wilson Lefty Gomez Award.AFTER AN OUTSTANDING CAREER as a pitcher at Point Loma Point Loma is a neighborhood of San Diego, California. Geographically it is a hilly peninsula that is bordered on the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, the east by the San Diego Bay and Old Town and the north by the San Diego River. Nazarene University, Dr. Carroll Land became its baseball coach in 1961 and then its Athletic Director Athletic director (commonly, "athletics director") is a position at many American colleges and universities, as well as in larger high schools and middle schools, which oversees the work of the coaches and related staff involved in intercollegiate or interscholastic athletic in 1968. He is also a past president of the ABCA ABCA American Baseball Coaches Association ABCA American Border Collie Association ABCA Associação Brasileira de Críticos de Arte ABCA Ausable Bayfield Conservation Authority ABCA American, British, Canadian, and Australian , a former member of the U.S. Olympic Committee, 1983 NAIA NAIA abbr. National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes President, 1993 NAJA District 3 Male Administrator of the Year, NAJA Region IL Chair in 1995 and 2001, and a member of the NAIA Hall of Fame. Dr. Land's Point Loma baseball team won back-to-back NAIA District 3 and Far West Region titles, finished fifth in the 1994 NAJA College World Series, and third in 1993. Dr. Land graduated from Point Loma Nazarene in 1961 when it was known as Pasadena College, received his M.S. in Education from the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission in 1963 and his Ph.D. from USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. in 1977. He has served as Chair of the ABCA Board of Directors since 1998. Also in 1998, Baseball America  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . called his school's ball field "America's Most Scenic Baseball Park" as it was being renamed, fittingly, the Carroll B. Land Stadium. THE LEFTY GOMEZ AWARD IS SPONSORED BY WILSON SPORTING GOODS The Wilson Sporting Goods company is a sports equipment manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., and currently is a foreign subsidiary of the Finnish company Amer Sports that also owns Atomic, Suunto, Precor, and Salomon. . 1962 Abe Chanin, Collegiate Baseball 1963 Robert L. Culp, West. Michigan 1964 Pop McKale, Arizona 1965 John Kobs, Michigan State 1966 J. Kyle Anderson, U. of Chicago 1967 Eppy Barnes, Colgate 1968 W.P. Fehring, Stanford 1969 John Diesing, Coll. World Series 1970 L.C. Timm, Iowa State 1971 Rev. R.C. Williams, Creighton 1972 Lee Eilbracht, ABCA 1973 Jack Kaiser, St. John's (NY) 1974 Les Miller, ABCA 1975 Tom Petroff, Northern Colorado 1976 Danny Litwhiler, Michigan State 1977 Lou Spry, NCAA 1978 Dick Siebert, Minnesota 1979 Jack Stallings, Georgia Southern 1980 Rod Dedeaux, USC 1981 Les Murakami, Hawaii 1982 Tom Chandler, Texas A&M 1983 Chuck Brayton, Wash. State 1984 Robert Smith, USBF/IBA 1985 Peter Ueberroth, Comm. of Baseball 1986 John Winkin, Maine 1987 John Scolinos, Cal Poly-Pomona 1988 Ron Polk, Mississippi State 1989 Ron Fraser, Miami 1990 Glen Thckett, Brigham Young 1991 Gordon Gillespie, St. Francis (IL) 1992 Lou Pavlovich, Jr., Publisher 1993 Archie Allen, Springfield (MA) 1994 Sam Suplizio, Grand Junction (CO) 1995 Pinky Primrose, Coe College (IA) 1996 Mark Marquess, Stanford 1997 Gene McArtor, Missouri 1998 Elmer Kosub, St. Mary's (TX) 1999 Jerry Kindall, Arizona 2000 Bob Bennett, Fresno State 2001 Bill Arce, Claremont-Mudd Scripps 2002 Dave Keilitz, American Baseball Coaches Association |
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