NEWS BLOCK MSU BASEBALL CLUB

January 5, 1999 - Our Hitting motions were recorded by Head Coach on a video tape for comparing with Ken Griffey jr, Jay Buhner, Edgar Martinez and Bernie Williams's motions.

January 6, 1999 - the Same thing

January 8, 1999 - I'm just talked with my teammate Garik about Web Page, and I began a work.

January 11, 1999 - Oleg Barmotin' personal page was uploaded.

January 12, 1999 - John arrived from Samara and bring a World Series games on a video casette to us.

January 13, 1999 - We watched a video tape with comparing of motions.

January 16, 1999 - First Work Out in the 3-hall building. We learned how to pitch Change-Up and played Basketball. Some players stay there after the work out and learned how to pitch Slider, Curveball, Forkball, Splitfinger. I'm talked with Dmitri Alexeevich about the page - He sad that he will give to me our stats.

February 3, 1999 - Ned' and Rich' father has returned from the Cleveland, USA for 3 days. Head Coach made a video tape with us on a work out for them.

February 6, 1999 - Work out for pitchers and catcher. Everybody has pitched at least 30 pitches. Learning how to pitch change-up, slider, curveball, knuckleball.

February 9, 1999 - Coach sad that everybody' swings had been very improved.

February 10, 1999 - The first work out for catcher (blocks and receiving) and hitting a balls on a high speed.

February 12, 1999 - Conflict between the head coach and some players.

February 13, 1999 - We are back to the basketball hall, because the student' holidays are finished. Head coach brought a baseball wich shows speed. Garik Bobkov' speed was clocked at 78 mph.

February 27, 1999 - Another work out in the basketball-hall and athletic-hall. We played some tennis.

March 9, 1999 - Hitting wothout pitching machine.

March 13, 1999 - Difficult work out in the athletic-hall. Pitching and fielding os the grounballs in the basketball-hall.

March 14, 1999 - Our stats for the second part of the season were uploaded.

April 25, 1999 - Our team was second in the IV Tournament in memory of Roman Bulizgnikov in softball.