NEW YORK -- The U.S. Baseball Federation Thursday invited 30 college players to try out for the USA Baseball Team that will participate in the 1986 World Championships in Holland.
Named to coach the 20-player team was Bob Bennett, coach at Fresno State.
Assistants include Rich Alday on Pima Community College in Arizona, Missouri coach Gene McArtor and Bill Thurston, coach of Amherst College in Massachusetts.
The team, sponsored by Plymouth, will hold tryouts in Tennessee in June and tour the U.S. and Canada before the World Championships in July. The U.S. has not won the championship since 1974.
Players (with college class, position and college) invited to participate in tryouts were:
Dave Brundage, jr., p, Oregon State; Jim Bullinger, jr., ss, New Orleans; Kevin Burdick, jr., ss, Oklahoma; Craig Colbert, jr., 3b, Oral Roberts; Craig Cooper, soph., 1b, Georgia Southern; Paul DeJaynes, jr., p, Bradley.
Tom Deller, fr., p, Kentucky; Mike Erb, soph., p, San Diego State; Ed Fulton, soph., c, Florida State; Mike Goff, soph., p, Fresno State; Gilbert Heredia, jr., p, Arizona.
Xavier Hernandez, jr., p, Southwestern Louisiana; David Hollins, soph., 3b, South Carolina; Brad Hildreth, fr., ss, Mississippi State; Wiley Lee, soph., 2b, Old Dominion; Barry Manuel, soph., p, Louisiana State.
Trey McCoy, fr., 3b, Virginia Tech; Jeff Mutis, fr., p, Lafayette College; Bill Narleski, jr., ss, Virginia; John Orton,, soph., c, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; John Ramos, jr., c, Stanford.
Mike Remlinger, soph., p, Dartmouth; Bob Richie, jr., of, Nevada-Reno; Boi Rodriguez, soph., 3b, Indiana State; Alex Sanchez, soph., p, UCLA; Drew Tanner, sr., p, Navy.
John Vanderwal, soph, of, Western Michigan; Greg Vaughn, jr., of, Miami; Bob Zeihen, soph., of, Indiana State; Bob Zupcic, soph., of, Oral Roberts.
