{"id":970,"date":"2021-07-20T17:15:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T21:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/?page_id=970"},"modified":"2022-04-26T16:52:48","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T20:52:48","slug":"nick-stipanovich","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/alumni\/hall-of-fame\/nick-stipanovich\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Stipanovich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/fastball\/files\/2021\/07\/JMP-Website-BU-Baseball-1-of-4-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/fastball\/files\/2021\/07\/JMP-Website-BU-Baseball-1-of-4-1-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"JMP Website - BU Baseball (1 of 4)\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-985\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/files\/2021\/07\/JMP-Website-BU-Baseball-1-of-4-1-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/files\/2021\/07\/JMP-Website-BU-Baseball-1-of-4-1-768x612.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/files\/2021\/07\/JMP-Website-BU-Baseball-1-of-4-1-1024x816.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/files\/2021\/07\/JMP-Website-BU-Baseball-1-of-4-1.jpg 1850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Terrier NCAA Teams&#8217; Pitchers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Left to Right: Tim Masick, Herb Witten, Nick Stipanovich, Jack Mara)<\/p>\n<p>Nick, a 6\u2019 4\u201d right-handed flame-thrower was one of three pitchers who led BU into the 1968 and 1969 NCAA baseball tournaments. The other two elite Terriers hurlers, Tim Masick and Jack Mara are also BU Baseball Hall of Famers. These three made up the finest trio of hurlers to play on the same team in BU Baseball history.<\/p>\n<p>Drafted by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/draft\/?team_ID=STL&amp;year_ID=1968&amp;draft_type=junreg&amp;query_type=franch_year\">St. Louis Cardinals<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/draft\/?year_ID=1968&amp;draft_round=30&amp;draft_type=junreg&amp;query_type=year_round\">30th round<\/a>\u00a0of the 1968 MLB June Amateur Draft\u00a0and again by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/draft\/?team_ID=STL&amp;year_ID=1969&amp;draft_type=jansec&amp;query_type=franch_year\">Cardinals<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/draft\/?year_ID=1969&amp;draft_round=5&amp;draft_type=jansec&amp;query_type=year_round\">5th round<\/a>\u00a0of the 1969 MLB January Draft-Secondary Phase, Nick joined teammate Tim Masick who also signed a professional contract with the Cardinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrier NCAA Teams&#8217; Pitchers (Left to Right: Tim Masick, Herb Witten, Nick Stipanovich, Jack Mara) Nick, a 6\u2019 4\u201d right-handed flame-thrower was one of three pitchers who led BU into the 1968 and 1969 NCAA baseball tournaments. The other two elite Terriers hurlers, Tim Masick and Jack Mara are also BU Baseball Hall of Famers. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/alumni\/hall-of-fame\/nick-stipanovich\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nick Stipanovich<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2500,"featured_media":0,"parent":69,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2500"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/970\/revisions\/1005"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fastball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}