15 Facts About Kirk McCaskill

Kirk Edward McCaskill was born on April 9,1961 and is a Canadian-American former Major League Baseball pitcher and former professional ice hockey player.

McCaskill was born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, where his father Ted McCaskill was playing for the local senior league hockey team at that time.

Kirk McCaskill's father retired from hockey in 1975 after which his family settled in Paradise Valley, Arizona.

Kirk McCaskill attended Edison High School in Huntington Beach his freshman year before being accepted at Trinity-Pawling School in Pawling, New York.

Kirk McCaskill moved to the boarding school mainly to pursue his hockey career, but continued to play baseball while there.

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Kirk McCaskill turned down a baseball scholarship to Arizona State University so that he could pursue both hockey and baseball at the University of Vermont.

All-ECAC in baseball and hockey as a collegiate student-athlete, Kirk McCaskill was drafted in the fourth round of the 1982 amateur draft by the California Angels, from the University of Vermont, and would be the first baseball player from UVM to reach the major leagues since Jack Lamabe in 1962.

Kirk McCaskill debuted in 1985, and his break-out season was 1986 with the American League West champion California Angels.

Kirk McCaskill totaled ten complete games on the season and would go on to have six seasons of ten or more wins, throw two one-hitters, and rank in the American League top ten in shutouts and earned run average three times each during his career.

On September 14,1990, Kirk McCaskill surrendered back-to-back home runs to Ken Griffey Sr.

In 2003, Kirk McCaskill was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, along with Joe Carter, Richard Belec, and the Asahi.

Kirk McCaskill played center and right wing for the University of Vermont from 1979 to 1983, and in 1982 was a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award and was named to that season's NCAA East All-America First Team and the ECAC All-Star First Team.

Kirk McCaskill was drafted in the fourth round by the Winnipeg Jets in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft, playing only one season of professional hockey for the Sherbrooke Jets, a Jets farm team, and dressed for one game with the Winnipeg Jets of the NHL but did not play in the game.

Kirk McCaskill retired from professional hockey after that one season to focus solely on his professional baseball career.

Kirk McCaskill became the head baseball coach at The Bishop's School in La Jolla, California in November 2020, having previously been the head coach at Torrey Pines High School in San Diego.