There are 11 article(s) tagged Brent Rooker:

• November 2024

  • Bailey: A tour around the suburbs

    Honors and ground breaking for Buc-cee’s highlight a week of touring around the suburbs for news.

    By Clay Bailey November 15, 2024

  • Former ECS standout Brent Rooker wins Silver Slugger award

    Germantown’s Rooker just completed his second season with the Oakland A’s.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff November 13, 2024

• July 2024

  • The greatest Memphis athletes of the century: Nos. 16-20

    The Daily Memphian has selected the greatest 25 Memphis athletes of the century. Nos. 16-20 include two Grizzlies, a Tiger quarterback, one of the greatest kickers in NFL history and a baseball player who could be back in the news this week. 

     

    By Geoff Calkins July 31, 2024

  • Two Memphis-area baseball standouts named 2023 MLB All-Star reserves

    Former DeSoto Central standout Austin Riley and former Evangelical Christian School star Brent Rooker were named Sunday, July 2, as reserves for the MLB All-Star Game that will be played July 11 in Seattle.

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    Former ECS star is baseball’s early season surprise

    By David Boyd July 05, 2024

• May 2024

  • Bailey: Germantown resident making long-ball impact with the Oakland A’s

    Local baseball product Brent Rooker is having another nice start to his season, hitting home runs and batting for a higher average as designated hitter for the Oakland Athletics.

    By Clay Bailey May 10, 2024

  • Former ECS star makes MLB history with two home runs in same inning

    Brent Rooker, who lives in Germantown during the MLB offseason, is the 60th player in major league history to homer twice in an inning. The last A’s player to do it was Mark McGwire in 1996.

    By The Associated Press May 06, 2024

• October 2023

  • GameDay Baseball was a field of dreams for nearly 20 years

    GameDay Baseball, on Fischer Steel Road, was the dream of the late Mark Neel, a developer who considered himself a better youth football coach than baseball coach, but still wanted to do right by the game.

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    Cordova youth baseball complex to be shuttered

    By Don Wade October 21, 2023

• May 2023

  • Former ECS star is baseball’s early season surprise

    After years of moving from team to team and trying to stick in the majors, Brent Rooker’s bat is popping this season.

    By John Varlas May 17, 2023

• September 2020

  • Sports Notebook: Pac-12 calls a reverse, drones invade ballparks, MJ goes NASCAR

    While the Memphis football team remains on the sideline another week because of positive COVID-19 tests, the Pac-12 says it will start play in November. 

    By Don Wade September 27, 2020

  • Brent Rooker’s major league debut comes in empty stadium

    But not even a pandemic could lessen the joy Terry Rooker felt when he saw his son playing for Minnesota Twins on TV.

    By Don Wade September 07, 2020

• June 2019

  • Now at Triple-A, Brent Rooker knows Westeros wasn’t conquered in a day

    The thinking man’s player, Brent Rooker (ECS) is a step away from the big leagues and well aware that baseball, like life, has its own schedule.

    By Don Wade June 16, 2019