Ellis to PPU Hall of Fame
Former Wild Things second baseman and assistant coach Ryan Ellis will be inducted into the Point Park University Athletics Hall of Fame on Oct. 9.Here is Ellis' bio from the school's release:
A native of Munhall, Pa., and a graduate of Steel Valley High School, Ryan Ellis holds the Point Park record for single-season batting average at .477 in 1999. Ellis, an infielder, ranks fourth in school history with a .405 career average, and he is one of only four players in school history to hit over .400 for his career. A two-time NAIA Honorable Mention All-American (1998 and 199), Ellis’ ranking in Point Park’s career records include being third in hits (207), third in RBIs (169), second in home runs (27) and second in triples (21). He led Point Park to its 10th appearance in the NAIA World Series in 1998.
Drafted in the 28th round of the 2000 MLB draft by the Montreal Expos, Ellis played five years of minor league baseball, first with Vermont in the New York-Penn League and then with Washington of the independent Frontier League.
Currently, Ellis is the manager of the NY Mets Class A affiliate, the Savannah Sand Gnats, a position he took over prior to the 2011 season. The Sand Gnats won the South Atlantic League Southern Division first-half title and took a 39-30 record into the SAL All-Star break June 20-22. Ellis managed the South Division in the SAL All-Star Game June 21, 2011 to a 6-3 victory. Prior to becoming the manager of the Sand Gnats, Ellis had been a minor league assistant coach since 2003, and he has been coaching in the NY Mets’ organization since 2006.
Ellis was also a three-year member of the Point Park men’s soccer team (1996-98), and he was an NAIA All-Northeast Region Honorable Mention defender in 1997.
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posted by Chris Dugan at
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Is it too far off topic to say something about Wednesday’s game? I realize the accomplishments of Ryan Ellis and he should be honored but…………
Last nights game was filled with miracles.
Miracle 1 – Todd Marlin reappeared at CEP Todd is a good guy and really both needs and deserves our support. – Damn ownership group is really just a bunch of people with paper heads looking for a scapegoat!
Miracle 2 – The Wild Things actually won. A super job of pitching by Justin Hall giving up only two hits and NO walks plus, a complete game.
Miracle 3 – That there was anybody at all to see the game. The box score said eleven hundred but the no shows held the actual count to about seven hundred. It was more like a freakin’ Egyptian tomb than a baseball park.
Miracle 4 – That Ryan Ditthardt didn’t receive a scull fracture when he could not handle a routine pop-up.
The ball came closer to hitting his head than his glove. This is professional baseball?
Miracle 5 – I actually talked to a group of four tourist. Could it be that the politicians were right? OMG,
I have NEVER seen a tourist in Washington County in the 23 years I’ve lived. Lock the doors Martha, here come the damn tourist!
Miracle 6 – The ‘clipboard’ guy wasn’t carrying his clipboard. LOOK OUT!
Anyway, if you were not there you missed all these miracles. What a shame
Ima Fraid
It's never off topic to talk about the last or next game.
What formula does the Frontier League use to make the schedules? Is traveling expenses somehow
used as a factor? Nine straight home games seem a bit much to me. Then, followed by 12 of 18 on the road.
To top it off, there are no games scheduled at CEP in September unless of course, the Wild Things make the play-offs.
There is also the matter of the 11:05 AM game on the 27th of this month. If a season ticket holder cannot make it to the game, I’ve been told that there will be NO compensation for them except a ticket for another upcoming game. WHAT? We already have tickets for all upcoming games. Can anybody figure out the logic in this policy? We, as least a good number of us, paid for our season tickets last Fall long before the schedule for 2011 was published. How the hell were we supposed to know that some of the games we paid for were to be played in the morning? Just another reason that this ownership group should learn something about how not to piss-off their best customers. Other than knowing how to count money, the Williams’s don’t have even the business acumen to run an ice cream store.
Ima Fraid
I believe the Frontier League uses a scheduling format that is similar from year to year. Two teams are paired as travel parteners, such as Washington/Lake Erie and Gateway/River City. They try never to schedule a team for more than six consecutive road games, unless there are problems with field availability. For example, the Wild Things are not at home when the WPIAL has its baseball championhip games. I was told several years ago that Evansville's field presents the most scheduling problems. Looking at this year's schedule, there was likely a stadium availability conflict that has caused the Wild Things to go from hosting River City, then to St. Louis for six, then back home for three against Gateway. It's usually six at home, a travel day and then six in St. Louis. Some teams can request to be on the road at certain times of the year. I'd think the Wild Things would want to be on the road during the first weekend of the WPIAL football season. The three early starts for home games is not something unusual in the world of minor league baseball. Most affiliated leagues have a lot of these, caused by getaway day rules. I checked the Altoona Curve's schedule and they have six weekeday home games this year that start at noon or earlier. It would, however, have been nice for the Wild Things to have told their previous season ticket holders that they planned to increase the number of the early starts from one to three.
GO RYAN!!! We love you!!
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