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Article: Snapper takes 28 for the team Bruised Kinkade owns Midwest League record
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 21, 1996
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As a catcher in high school and college, Mike Kinkade was no
stranger to getting hit by a baseball.
A foul tip off the shoulder, the hand, the foot or the thigh was
commonplace. Maybe that's why the Beloit Snappers third baseman is
taking this brush with greatness in stride.
Or should it be a brushback with greatness?
Kinkade, a 23-year-old former ninth-round draft pick from
Livonia, Mich., has been hit by a pitch 28 times during the 1996
season, breaking the Class A Midwest League record set by Charles
Gipson of the Appleton Foxes in 1993.
Gipson, however, accomplished the feat in 135 games. Kinkade
reached it in the 91st game of the season, Wednesday night at Peoria.
"I don't mind ...