Jeff_Alkire

Jeff Alkire

Jeff Alkire

American baseball player


Robert Jeffrey Alkire (born November 15, 1969) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played internationally for Team USA. As a player, he was listed at 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) and 200 pounds (91 kg); he threw left-handed and batted right-handed.

Alkire attended the University of Miami, where he played college baseball for the Miami Hurricanes.[1] In 1991, he played collegiate summer baseball for the Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod Baseball League.[2] He pitched for the United States national baseball team in the 1992 Summer Olympics.[3]

After his baseball career, he started his own business and worked as a sales representative for Elkay Manufacturing.[4]


References

  1. "Alkire Keeps 'Canes Alive Lefty's Pitching Helps um Rally from Earlier Loss".
  2. Iacuessa, Mike (July 23, 1992). "Team USA Opens Olympic Play This Sunday in Barcelona, Spain". Yarmouth Register. Yarmouth, MA. pp. S8.
  3. "Jeff Alkire, II". olympedia.org. OlyMADMen. Retrieved 11 July 2022.

Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Jeff_Alkire, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.