2008 Woodie Awards
ISU Student in baseball
Robyn Vineyard
Issue date: 2/2/05 Section: Sports
In 1998, born and raised North Carolinian Tyrone Horne made headlines by doing something no one else in the history of professional baseball had ever done before or has replicated since.
It could be argued that most readers of The Bengal do so while at school or if nothing else, in a public place. So, take a moment from reading this and look up. Chances are there are people all around. Any idea who those people are, where they've come from or where they're going?
The point is one never knows who could be walking in a crowd entirely undetected.
Horne, a junior at the Idaho Falls Campus of ISU, majoring in physical education and minoring in coaching, played professional baseball after being drafted in 1990, by the Montreal Expos right out of high school.
He stayed with the Expos for five and half years before being traded to the New York Yankees, where he stayed for two more. He also played for the New York Mets, Florida Marlins, St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies as well as in the major leagues in South Korea.
However, it is July 27, 1998 that stands out in the minds of most baseball fans. While playing for the Arkansas Travelers, whose parent team was the Cardinals, Horne became the first and still only professional baseball player to homer for the cycle. Ironically, Horne said, "I woke up [that] morning with a bad vibe about the game. I was going to ask my manager for the day off...I had probably the worst batting practice all season. I knew I was going to have a bad day."
"The pitcher I had seen in game one and I wasn't looking forward to facing him again."
"First at bat, I hit a home run. Home runs are rare there because there's wind coming from all directions. I was really surprised," he said.
"I got up again and 'whop,' hit a grand slam," he said that at his third at bat, in the fifth inning, his roommate asked him if he thought he'd try for a third home run, he said he wouldn't.
It could be argued that most readers of The Bengal do so while at school or if nothing else, in a public place. So, take a moment from reading this and look up. Chances are there are people all around. Any idea who those people are, where they've come from or where they're going?
The point is one never knows who could be walking in a crowd entirely undetected.
Horne, a junior at the Idaho Falls Campus of ISU, majoring in physical education and minoring in coaching, played professional baseball after being drafted in 1990, by the Montreal Expos right out of high school.
He stayed with the Expos for five and half years before being traded to the New York Yankees, where he stayed for two more. He also played for the New York Mets, Florida Marlins, St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies as well as in the major leagues in South Korea.
However, it is July 27, 1998 that stands out in the minds of most baseball fans. While playing for the Arkansas Travelers, whose parent team was the Cardinals, Horne became the first and still only professional baseball player to homer for the cycle. Ironically, Horne said, "I woke up [that] morning with a bad vibe about the game. I was going to ask my manager for the day off...I had probably the worst batting practice all season. I knew I was going to have a bad day."
"The pitcher I had seen in game one and I wasn't looking forward to facing him again."
"First at bat, I hit a home run. Home runs are rare there because there's wind coming from all directions. I was really surprised," he said.
"I got up again and 'whop,' hit a grand slam," he said that at his third at bat, in the fifth inning, his roommate asked him if he thought he'd try for a third home run, he said he wouldn't.