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Article: Brownlee gets in the swing for ISU baseball
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- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
- Article date:
- October 6, 2002
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When Illinois State athletics director Perk Weisenburger
introduced Jim Brownlee as the eighth head baseball coach in school
history three months ago, he said he wanted a leader and a
competitor.
Weisenburger also wanted someone who had a vision; an accomplished
fund-raiser; and someone with energy and passion.
During his first 90 days on the job, the 57-year-old Brownlee
appears to have the energy level of a 17-year-old.
The guy is everywhere, promoting not only ISU baseball, but
baseball at any level. He'll stop and talk baseball on the street
corner, at Schooners pub, or at the youth travel team tryouts for the
Bloomington-Normal American Legion program.
"A baseball coach is not just a ...