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High school baseball: Pine View's Littlewood named Mr. Baseball
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Absolute Stud | 3:10 p.m. June 2, 2009
Marcus is a stud. What a great player. Its great to see him get this award -
he deserves it!
very well done | 3:28 p.m. June 2, 2009
Very well done. How is the grade point average at school?
Littlewood | 3:52 p.m. June 2, 2009
This is one selection no will argue with
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Re: Littlewood | 4:29 p.m. June 2, 2009
You should rephrase that. This is one selection no one SHOULD argue with, BUT if
you have ever dealt with the parents of high school baseball in Utah, it
won't be long until someone disagrees and thinks it should have been
someone else.
Your 7th Grade Science Teacher | 5:59 p.m. June 2, 2009
To very very well done: 99.9% of the kids in America would be proud of
Marcus' academics as well.
Marcus, you are a true champion in every sense of the term and you always have been. Your baseball accolades are only the icing on who you are as a person. You deserve everything you have worked for and I'll be your biggest fan in the years to come.
GBWYTWMA
Marcus, you are a true champion in every sense of the term and you always have been. Your baseball accolades are only the icing on who you are as a person. You deserve everything you have worked for and I'll be your biggest fan in the years to come.
GBWYTWMA
Steve M | 6:46 p.m. June 2, 2009
Marcus has worked very hard for everything that he has achieved. I don't
know of anyone who would be more deserving. He is a super young man from a
wonderful family. Just wished he would have played basketball too.
Bottom Line | 7:21 p.m. June 2, 2009
Marcus is good, but i think it should have been Blake Ovard at snow canyon, he
worked harder. He was in the cage every day this year.
Jace Melessa | 8:35 p.m. June 2, 2009
Congrats Littlewood, thats an awesome achievement. Go Pine View
Anonymous | 9:03 p.m. June 2, 2009
What exactly does the Mr. Baseball award represent? just the most prestigious
award given to a Utah player?
again I ask | 7:10 a.m. June 3, 2009
Again, I ask. what are his grades?
I Love Baseball | 7:12 a.m. June 3, 2009
What a fun player to watch! He does it all out there! He makes this extremely
hard game look easy! Congratulations!
Re: Again I ask | 7:35 a.m. June 3, 2009
Read the whole article! It will answer your question. His GPA is 3.6, he takes
his class room work very seriously. Sometimes the Des News stories on the net
are longer than what you first see. When you see the numbers at the bottom of
the story it means that you must keep clicking on the numbers, 1-2-3 etc... in
order to read the entire story. Call a friend if you still need help with this.
Great job Marcus! You are very deserving of this title.
JD Fan | 8:17 a.m. June 3, 2009
With out a doubt, the best player hands down, and such an amazing, respectful
young man. Congrats and keep working hard, good things will happen for you. Be
sure to thank your parents, they are truly amazing people.. It is going to be
fun to see you continue your career.
Mike's old, old teammate | 8:32 a.m. June 3, 2009
Sounds like a chip off the old block. Obviously he payed attention to his old
man. Congratulations to both father and son.
Kim A. | 10:12 a.m. June 3, 2009
Congrats! A great kid off the field. Keep it up!
Food for Thought | 11:29 a.m. June 3, 2009
If one had to choose a player to be Mr. Baseball from a team that didn't
even win a game at state Trey Nielsen of Skyline might be the pick. He
dominated the Marshall Gates Foundation game and is a great player. With that
said, any Duke boy probably should be Mr. Baseball. Though the younger Duke is
a better pitcher, the older one is a better overall player but to me they were
the best players in the state leading the best team in the state to the 5-A
title.
Re: Food for thought | 12:20 p.m. June 3, 2009
Sounds like this story left a bad taste in your mouth. (You must have got some
bad chow somewhere) Although there are some who will always question a MVP pick
or any other high honor, the kids in the state who actually know Marcus will
agree that this was a good pick. Most of the kids at the Gates Field game last
week would agree that Marcus has taken this game to a level that even they
haven't achieved yet.
Food for Thought Redux | 1:10 p.m. June 3, 2009
Littlewood is a great player--this no one can dispute. I have no dog in this
fight as I am not a parent of a high school baseball player but just a fan/coach
of high school baseball. To me this award is not about who has the best
college potential etc. but who was the best overall player in the state. He is
definitely among them as are the players that I mentioned (the Duke brothers,
Nielsen). Again, Littlewood is a great player and I can't emphasize this
enough.
Congrats to PV's Littlewood | 6:37 p.m. June 3, 2009
As a Hurricane resident, I congratulate Littlewood for his outstanding play this
season. He seems like a fine kid.
his old man... | 11:34 p.m. June 3, 2009
also as an ex-teammate of mike(marcus' dad) Marcus has some pretty good
genes, Mike was a good BYU baseball player, but I thought he was an even better
basketball player, I kept telling him to walk on at BYU and he would be the
starting guard, but alas, he stuck with baseball. I have been able to watch him
and his older brother play over the last few years go against my son, what great
players, and better yet great young men. Good job Mike and Dani
Question? | 8:19 a.m. June 4, 2009
Didn't Pine View do way good in the state tournament?
3A coach | 5:34 p.m. June 4, 2009
Cool. what is the criteria for this award? Do you apply for it? Would like to
know for next year.
wow!!! | 11:04 p.m. June 4, 2009
What a player!!!!!!!
aleseduke | 11:39 a.m. June 6, 2009
way to go Littlewood! I think it s great you were given this award.
Kelly Self | 2:44 p.m. June 8, 2009
Way to go Marcus. I am sure your Mom and Dad are very proud.
rm | 10:20 p.m. June 9, 2009
good job
KW | 1:10 p.m. June 10, 2009
were not looking at the state tournement tell me one player that hit .531 and
had a slugging percentage over 1. ya only marcus can do that how about all you
northern people stop baggin on marcus he is the best player in the state hands
down. way better than the duke boys and way better than nielson or whoever that
is good luck marcus you will go big no doubt!!!!!!!!!!!!
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