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| (L) Autographed 2001 Nashua Price WMUR9 Team Set (R) 2002 Newark Bears Choice Team Set (MVP Card) |
With a professional baseball career that spanned seventeen
seasons reaching the Triple-A level with four different organizations and the
major leagues in 1997 with the Detroit Tigers, the 6’6” power-hitting outfielder
landed in the Atlantic League with Hobson’s Nashua Pride in 2001, but it would
be his second year in the league with Newark that would be his season for the
record books.
2002 could not have been a more perfect season for Hurst or
more of a monster year. Hurst led the league in hits (150), home runs (35), RBI’s
(100), total bases (288), batting average (.341) and slugging percentage (.655)
while playing in only 113 games on his way to becoming the Atlantic League’s
first ever Triple Crown winner. Hurst’s
slugging average mark that year still stands as the Atlantic League single-season
record. It was only a formality that Hurst was to be named the 2002 Atlantic
League Player of the Year.
In the post season that year, Hurst continued his perfect
season, leading his Newark Bears to their first league Championship ever sweeping
the Bridgeport Bluefish and being named the championship series MVP as well.
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