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<a name="_Hlk490052374"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS –
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">Baylor Baseball Adds Transfer Infielder Jack Little<br>
</span></b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Bears pick up AAC All-Freshman honoree from Wichita State<br>
</span></i><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">For more information contact:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> Max Calderone, 254-265-1639,
</span><a href="mailto:Max_Calderone@Baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Max_Calderone@Baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">WACO, Texas –
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Baylor baseball head coach Mitch Thompson announced Saturday the addition of rising sophomore infielder Jack Little to the 2024 roster.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">A transfer from Wichita State, Little hit .250 with seven doubles, one triple, three home runs and 25 RBIs across 46 games as the Shockers’ primary third baseman, despite missing
nearly a month with an early-season injury. He also added 10 stolen bases in 13 attempts and recorded a .929 fielding percentage.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Little earned All-Freshman Team status in the American Athletic Conference in his first year of collegiate baseball and crushed a game-tying grand slam in the ninth inning
at UCF on May 18, one of WSU’s most memorable moments of the 2023 campaign. He tallied 10 multi-hit and seven multi-RBI efforts, including a pair of three-hit games in back-to-back contests on April 23 and 26, and ended the season with knocks in six of his
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">A product of Obra D. Tompkins High School in Katy, Texas, Little was a Second-Team All-State first baseman and hit .471 with a school-record 14 doubles in his senior season.
He also added four triples, two homers, 42 RBIs and stole 25 bases en route to being unanimously named a First-Team All-District player.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Jack is the son of Charity and Mark Little, a former professional baseball player who had a four-year stint in the major leagues. He also has a sister, Ryan, who runs track
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">To stay up to date on all things Baylor baseball, follow the team on its official Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts: @BaylorBaseball.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#154734;mso-ligatures:none">Max Calderone</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> | Associate Director of Athletics Communications (BSB, FB, EQ)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Department of Athletics | Baylor University</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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