Pico was drafted by the Chicago Cubs out of high school. Ironically, his Major League Baseball pitching debut on May 31, 1988 was a 4-hit shutout of the Reds, becoming the first time a rookie player pitched a shutout in a debut game since 1934.
Pico played for 13 seasons professionally, and has spent the last 10 years with the Arizona Diamondbacks as a coach for their farm team pitchers.
Congratulations, Jeff!
64 years ago this week, February 21, 1957, the Antioch Quarterback Club met at Club Marchetti for the first Gala Sports Night. The Master of Ceremonies was Bob Fouts, the Forty-Niner play by play announcer and father of NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Dan Fouts. Future ASL Hall of Fame inductees Worth Shaw and Nick…
Herb Miles, Wrestling AHS 1964
At today’s Antioch Historical Museum Board meeting AHS Board President Dwayne Eubanks cancelled the museum’s scheduled opening date of Saturday, August 15, 2020. When asked when the museum would reopen the AHS Board President said, “We have an event scheduled for October (Saturday, October 3rd) with the Bay Bomber’s for a car show, we’ll see…
Today Antioch Sports History- April 7, 1970- 51 years ago today Antioch High’s Gene “Butch” Rounsaville toes the rubber at Chicago’s White Sox Stadium as a relief pitcher and becomes Antioch’s first Major League Baseball (MLB) player. It would be eight long years before the 6’3’ 205 pound, 1962 graduate would stand facing his first…
For Coach Jack Danilovich’s 2007 Hall of Fame Bio
A year after finishing 28th against the pass, the Bucs have finally strengthened their secondary. Less than 24 hours after his visit with the 49ers, California native and former Cowboy Sterling Moore has signed with Tampa Bay, the team announced Thursday. Moore joins the Buccaneers on a one-year deal, worth a max value of $1.525…
