Page 12 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, July 22, 1988
Abbott captures Big Ten award

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BY ADAM SCHRAGER
Michigan baseball pitcher Jim
Abbott, winner of the 1988 Sullivan
Award winner as the nation's
greatest amateur athlete, was named
the 1987-88 Big Ten-Jesse Owens
Athlete-of-the-Year in a ceremony
July 30 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel
in Chicago.
Abbott received seven first-place

votes, two second-place, and one first baseball player and first
third-place vote for 26 points. Michigan athlete to be named Big
Former Ohio State All-American Ten men's Athlete-of-the-Year.
linebacker Chris Spielman, the 1987 "It is an honor (for Jim) to be
Lombardi Award winner, was runner- even nominated for the Big Ten
up with 14 points, including one Athlete-of-the-Year award consider-
first-place vote. ing all the great athletes in the
The award for Abbott summarizes Conference," said Wolverine baseball
what has been a busy summer for coach Bud Middaugh. Especially,
the 20 year-old lefthander. He is the when you have a Jamie Morris (foot-

ball) and Gary Grant (basketball)
right here at Michigan.
"It is tough to measure one sports
against another when it comes to
this type of award. Jim has done a
great job on and off the field for
Michigan, the Big Ten and for col-
lege baseball in general. The Big
Ten Athlete-of-the-Year caps off a
great season."
Abbott, who was 9-3 with a 3.03
earned-run average (ERA) last
season, was selected by the Cal-
ifornia Angels in the first round of
June's Major League Amateur Draft
with the eighth pick. Currently, he
is on tour with Team USA in
preparation for the 1988 Summer
Olympic Games in Seoul, South

Korea.
The native of Flint is also one of
three finalists for the first R.E.
Smith College Baseball Player-of-
the-Year. Previously, he won the
1987 Golden Spikes Award as the
nation's best amateur baseball player
and the 1988 Tanqueray Amateur
Athlete Achievement Award.
Abbott had a 26-8 career record at
Michigan with a 3.03 ERA and 186
strikeouts. The Wolverines were
regular-season Big Ten champions in
each of his three years, and won the
Conference playoffs twice. Follow-
ing his duties with Team USA, he
will attempt to fulfill his childhood
dream of playing major league
baseball.

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'It is an honor (for Jim)
to be even nominated for
the Big Ten Athlete-of-
the-Year award consid-
ering all the great ath-
letes in the Conference.
Especially, when you
have a Jamie Morris and
Gary Grant right here at
Michigan.'
-'M' baseball coach
Bud Middaugh

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