Greg Hill (2001) - Marshall Athletics Hall of Fame

Greg Hill

Induction:
2001
Class:
1983

Nobody in the history of Marshall University baseball has a higher career batting average than the .388 mark recorded by Greg Hill. The Proctorville, Ohio, native came across the river to play for Coach Jack Cook and started hitting immediately – his .438 batting average as a freshman in 1980 remains the second-best single-season average in school history, and Hill nearly matched it when he hit .436 as a senior in 1983. Hill still stands near the top of the Marshall leaderboard in career hits (175), home runs (29), runs batted in (134) and stolen bases (30). The versatile Hill was named first team All-Southern Conference as the designated hitter in 1980, the catcher in 1981 and at shortstop in 1983. Hill was then drafted by the Minnesota Twins in 1984 Major League Baseball January (secondary) Draft and played for two years in the Twins’ organization. Hill was inducted into the Marshall Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002.