On Friday, Ryan Minor passed away from colon cancer. Minor was a former Major League Baseball player and a two-sport superstar from Oklahoma. His age was 49.
In 1996, the Baltimore Orioles drafted Minor, a sportsman who had played on both the basketball and baseball teams at Oklahoma. His Major League Baseball debut was on September 13, 1998, when he ended Cal Ripken Jr.’s record of 2,632 consecutive games played a week later by taking Ripken’s spot at third base.
lower spent four seasons as a major league player before retiring to manage lower league teams. Between 2010 and 2019, he oversaw two minor league clubs of the Baltimore Orioles. With the Orioles and the Montreal Expos, he hit.56 in 317 at-bats over 142 games.
The Orioles drafted the Oklahoma native in the fifteenth round when he was a senior in high school, but he instead became a star at the University of Oklahoma in the ’90s. While playing basketball for the Big Eight in 1994–1995, Minor was also a member of the 1994–1995 national champion Oklahoma baseball team. During that season, he grabbed over eight rebounds and scored about 24 points per game on average.
In the 1996 NBA Draft, Minor was picked by the Philadelphia 76ers in the second round; however, he decided to play professional baseball instead. Before going back to school for another season, he was selected by the New York Mets in the seventh round of the 1995 Major League Baseball Draft. The Orioles re-select him in the 1996 draft, this time taking him in the 33rd round.
Over the course of his four years with the Sooners, he appeared in 118 games, scoring 12.5 points per contest. He has scored 1,946 points in his collegiate career, good for sixth all-time.
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