THE FLATS – Georgia Tech athletics introduced today that the “Friends of Jim Poole” have founded an endowed scholarship in honor of former Yellow Jacket standout and Key League Baseball relief pitcher Jim Poole, who was diagnosed past 12 months with ALS.

The “Friends of Jim Poole” – comprised of friends in equally the company and Ga Tech worlds – produced the endowment to recognize him and how his legacy will keep on to have an impact on Ga Tech student-athletes in the baseball system, teaching them self-reliance and how to use their lessons acquired on the baseball field to the relaxation of their everyday living.

Poole arrived on The Flats in 1985 and experienced an rapid effects, as Ga Tech baseball would earn the to start with of 4-straight ACC Match Championships. Throughout his four several years, he pitched in 120 game titles and struck out 263 batters in 188 innings. He still ranks initially in the Tech file e-book with 22 job saves, which include 10 as a junior and nine as a senior. He was named all-ACC his past two seasons. Poole would be enshrined into the Georgia Tech Sports Hall of Fame just nine many years afterwards in 1997.

A stellar worker in the classroom, Poole elected not to switch skilled after being selected in the 34^th spherical of the 1987 MLB Draft by the LA Dodgers, and returned to Ga Tech for his senior calendar year, recording a 2.03 Period and 113 strikeouts in only 71 innings. At the time once again, the LA Dodgers would connect with his identify in the 1988 MLB Draft, this time having him in the ninth spherical. He would return to graduate from the Institute with a diploma in electrical engineering in 1990.

Poole played 11 decades in the significant leagues, predominantly with the Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, and San Francisco Giants. In 431 game titles played, he finished with 22 victories and a 4.31 Period, as effectively as 256 strikeouts and four saves. He assisted pitch Cleveland to two American League Championship Series (1995, 1998), making it to the 1995 Earth Collection wherever he would experience the Atlanta Braves.

Pursuing his retirement at the stop of the 2000 time, Poole returned to Ga Tech to be part of the Alexander-Tharpe Fund as a fundraiser and supporter of the baseball…