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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MLB ALUMNI FLASH GORDON AND CLINT HURDLE TO SERVE AS
MANAGERS FOR DICK’S ALL-AMERICAN CLASSIC AT CHASE FIELD
12 former MLB players will be at Chase Field events throughout the weekend
Sanford, Florida (Friday, August 16, 2024) – As Perfect Game, the world’s largest youth baseball and softball platform and scouting service, kicks off a big weekend at Chase Field, it was announced today that former MLB All-Star pitcher Tom “Flash” Gordon and former MLB manager Clint Hurdle will return as managers for Team East and Team West at the 2024 Dick’s All-American Classic, taking place this Sunday at 5:00 pm PT at Chase Field in Phoenix, Ari.
After finishing his 21-year major league career as a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks, Gordon joined Perfect Game and has spent the last decade mentoring youth baseball players all over the United States. The three-time All-Star led the American League with 46 saves in 1998 for the Boston Red Sox and is the only pitcher in major league history with 100 wins, 100 saves and 100 holds.
Hurdle played 10 years in the major leagues before transitioning to the role of manager, leading both the Colorado Rockies and the Pittsburgh Pirates to the playoffs. Hurdle won National League Manager of the Year in 2013 and currently sits at 1,269 career wins.
Gordon and Hurdle are part of a group of 12 former major league players who will be interacting with the 60 best high school baseball players in the country throughout the weekend at various Perfect Game events at Chase Field. The list includes Diamondbacks legend Luis Gonzalez, Hall of Famer Trevor Hoffman, four-time All-Star Hunter Pence, World Series champions Francisco Cervelli and Jose Contreras, seven-time All-Star Alfonso Soriano, eight-year veteran Todd Coffey, All-Star slugger Ryan Klesko, 11-year veteran Sean Berry and four-time All-Star Brian Fuentes.
Perfect Game’s weekend of events at Chase Field will feature the Underclass All-Star Game on Friday at 11 am PT, the Home Run Challenge on Saturday at 10 am PT and the All-American Classic on Sunday at 5 pm PT.
Admission to all events is free and media is welcome to attend any of the events throughout the weekend.
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Media contact:
Greg Casterioto / Gcasterioto@perfectgame.org / (267) 246-5709
About Perfect Game
Perfect Game is the world’s largest elite youth baseball and softball platform and scouting service, producing over 9,800+ events, hundreds of thousands of games, and showcases each year across the country. Perfect Game is dedicated to giving amateur players exposure to take their game to the next level, whether that be in college or in the professional ranks. At Perfect Game events, players are performing with top-level competition in front of college recruiters and professional scouts from all over the country. Because of this, these events prove to be invaluable to college coaches as well as Major League Baseball, as they can scout a large population of talented ballplayers in one location. To date, more than 2,034 players that have played in a Perfect Game event have also played in Major League Baseball. Since 2003, 14,466 Perfect Game alumni have been selected in the MLB First-Year Amateur Player Draft. In the 2023 Draft, for example, 95 percent of all players selected had played in Perfect Game events, and every player selected on the Draft’s first day had previously attended Perfect Game events.