[372] Fergie Jenkins Talks Baseball On "MTSU On The Record"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 18, 2010
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081, or WMOT-FM, 615-898-2800

FERGIE JENKINS TALKS BASEBALL ON “MTSU ON THE RECORD”
Hall-of-Fame Pitcher Slated to Speak at MTSU Baseball Lit Conference

(MURFREESBORO) –Major League Baseball Hall-of-Famer Ferguson Jenkins will be the guest on “MTSU on the Record” with host Gina Logue at 8 a.m. this Sunday, March 21, on WMOT-FM (89.5 and wmot.org). Jenkins is scheduled to be the luncheon speaker at the 15th annual Baseball Literature and Culture Conference in MTSU’s James Union Building on Friday, March 26. The right-handed pitcher compiled a 284-226 career record between 1965 and 1983 with the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs and Texas Rangers. He won at least 20 games in each of six consecutive seasons he pitched with the Cubs from 1966 to 1972, chalking up 24 victories and the coveted National League Cy Young Award in 1971. To hear last week’s program on the search for World War II homefront memorabilia from Rutherford County residents, go to go to http://frank.mtsu.edu/~proffice/podcast2010.html and click on “March 14, 2010.” For more information about “MTSU on the Record,” contact Logue at 615-898-5081 or WMOT-FM at 615-898-2800.


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With three Nobel Prize winners among its alumni and former faculty, Middle Tennessee State University confers master’s degrees in 10 areas, the Specialist in Education degree, the Doctor of Arts degree and the Doctor of Philosophy degree. MTSU is ranked among the top 100 public universities in the nation in the Forbes “America’s Best Colleges” 2009 survey.