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Former Phillies Slugger Greg Luzinski Added to Cutters Hot Stove Banquet
The Williamsport Crosscutters have announced that former Philadelphia Phillies All-Star Greg Luzinski has been added as a special guest for the 14th Annual Hot Stove Banquet to be held on Wednesday, January 15 in the Grand Ballroom of the Genetti Hotel in Williamsport. The event is presented in part by Panda Patriot Power, River Valley Transit, WRAK AM, and the Williamsport Sun-Gazette.
Joining Luzinski at this year's banquet will be ESPN Baseball Analyst Tim Kurkjian and more guests to be announced soon. A portion of the proceeds from the event will benefit a local charity to be announced later this month.
Luzinski played eleven seasons in Philadelphia () before finishing his career with the Chicago White Sox. He was a 4-time NL All-Star with Philadelphia () and was a member of the Phillies first World Series championship team in
Kurkjian, who was a big hit at last year's event, has covered baseball since and has been a baseball writer, reporter, analyst and host at ESPN since He has been a regular on Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter. Kurkjian has been part of ESPN's coverage of the MLB Little League Classic the last three years at Williamsport's BB&T Ballpark.
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Greg Luzinski
In Pittsburgh Pirates rookie catcher Steve Nicosia watched the 6’1”, lb. right-handed power hitter crowd the batter’s box and wondered, “How are we ever going to get a pitch by him?”1 Nicosia was hardly alone in these thoughts. For much of his year major-league career Greg Luzinski – whose large bat appeared toothpick-like in the burly slugger’s enormous hands – terrorized opposing batteries with some of the most prodigious blows in either league. Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson dubbed Luzinski “one of the best clutch hitters in baseball,”2 predicting he had a “chance to be the first National Leaguer to hit 60 homers.”3 A longtime favorite in Philadelphia, the fickle Phillies fans turned on Luzinski in the latter part of his career, paving the way for his March departure to his native Chicago. More than 30 years after his exit Luzinski still placed among the Phillies all-time leaders in a variety of offensive categories.
Gregory Michael Luzinski was born on November 22, , into an athletic family with a brother (William) and son (Ryan) following in his footsteps as major-league first round picks. A second brother with unlimited potential was waylaid by a back injury from an automobile accident. The great-grandson of an immigrant from northern Poland (and