Vanderbilt's Curt Casali To Join Tigers

July 2, 2011 - New York-Penn League (NYPL)
Norwich Sea Unicorns News Release

NORWICH, CT - The Connecticut Tigers are proud to announce that catcher Curt Casali from Vanderbilt University has signed with the Detroit Tigers organization and will be assigned to Connecticut to begin his professional career.

Casali, from New Canaan, Connecticut, played four years at Vanderbilt, where this season he hit .303 with seven home runs and 53 RBIs in 64 games and helped lead the Commodores to their first College World Series appearance in Omaha, Nebraska.

The 22-year-old Casali was tabbed the second best prospect out of Connecticut/Rhode Island by Baseball America entering the June 2007 draft and named a first-team All-American by Collegiate Baseball in 2007

While he was a star on the baseball diamond, he was also a great on the gridiron for the New Canaan High football team, being named first-team All-State in baseball 2005-07 and in football 2007

He helped lead the baseball team to conference championship as a junior and quarterbacked the football team to a state championship in football as a senior

Named the New Canaan Sportsman of the Year in 2007, Casali lettered four years in baseball, three in football and two in basketball, while he was the team captain in baseball for two years (2006-07) and one in football (2006).

Casali batted .317 with 13 runs scored and 13 RBI during his freshman season, hit .336 with 62 runs scored and team-high 59 RBI in his sophomore year and batted .309 with 13 doubles, 8 home runs, 42 RBI in 52 games as a junior.

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