Jeff Block already revived baseball at the University of Wisconsin once.
Now, he plans to do it again.
In the summer of 1998, Block was an incoming freshman. He was a talented baseball player, but deep down he knew he wasn’t cut out for the Majors. So, rather than try his hand at a Division 3 college, he went to UW. Though the Badgers hadn’t had a team since 1991, Block wasn’t exactly the kind of guy who was just going to forego baseball for years.
His father, Steve Block, a member of the Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame, instilled his love of the game in Jeff and his four brothers when they were young.