Chaon Garland., Haverford College
Baseball – Class of 1991
For three years Chaon Garland was one of the most dominant pitchers to ever play at Haverford College. He never got the opportunity, however, to pitch his senior year. Instead of taking the mound at Class of '16 Field with his Haverford teammates, Garland was pitching in the Oakland Athletics minor league system. Garland became the first Haverford player to be drafted by a Major League Baseball (MLB) team when the A's selected the right-hander in the third round of the 1990 draft.
Standing 6 feet 5 inches tall, the imposing Garland put up some impressive numbers in his collegiate career. He compiled 17 wins, 210 strikeouts, 9.34 strikeouts per nine innings, 20 complete games and three shutouts in 214.1 career innings. Garland departed Haverford with nearly every pitching record as those marks stood for almost 25 years before Tommy Bergjans, an eighth-round draft pick of the Los Angeles Dodgers, graduated from Haverford in 2015.
Garland's sophomore and junior seasons were nothing short of spectacular. He went 14-7 with a 3.03 ERA in 143 innings pitched. Pitching in front of scores of professional scouts during his junior year, Garland impressed, striking out 85 batters in 70 innings and winning four MAC games in-a-row. During those two seasons Garland earned a pair of All-MAC and All-Mid-Atlantic Region selections. He became the second Haverford player to earn All-America accolades and remains one of just two first-team selections (Bergjans) from Haverford.
Garland was inducted into Haverford’s Thomas Glasser ’82 Hall of Achievement in 2010.
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