TUCSON - After his freshman year at Long Beach Poly High School, Ryan Anderson made the school's storied varsity baseball team.
Finally, he had a path.
A six-foot-tall pitcher, Anderson would bring some intriguing stuff to a program that has produced major league stars such as Milton Bradley, Tony Gwynn and Chase Utley.
“I had a four-seam (fastball). A two-seam. Knuckle curve. Circle change up,” said Anderson, now the Arizona Wildcats’ senior forward. “For being so tall, I was more of an accuracy guy. Like a Greg Maddux type of pitcher. Just paint-the-corners type of thing.