Virginia Tech hosts Chipper Jones for annual Baseball Night

BLACKSBURG, Va. – The Virginia Tech baseball crew held its annual “Baseball Evening in Blacksburg” Saturday evening and had a visitor speaker who definitely left his mark on the sport of baseball.

1995 World Sequence champion and Atlanta Braves Corridor of Famer Chipper Jones spent the night talking with the baseball crew. His relationship with Virginia Tech baseball alum and fellow Braves teammate Brad Clontz helped get the previous first spherical choose to Blacksburg.

“I’ve been promising him I’d come up for the final 20 years–most of the time to tailgate and go to a soccer sport,” Jones stated.

“I get pleasure from it. I get pleasure from the truth that individuals need to know what it’s wish to win a world collection, play in a world collection, lose in a world collection. That’s what I attempted to impart to the baseball crew at this time. It’s a trickle down effect–the seniors need to have an effect on the juniors and so forth and so forth.”

“It’s a very elite stage the man performed at for a very long time,” stated Virginia Tech baseball coach John Szefc. “It’s simply good of him to donate his day to Virginia Tech and I feel his relationship with Brad Clontz had quite a bit to do with that which is good clearly which is nice for us and nice for Virginia Tech athletics usually.”

Jones not solely hung out on the baseball occasion however he additionally had an opportunity to checkout the Commonwealth Conflict by which Virginia Tech defeated No. 6 Virginia 74-68.