Jackson High School graduate Dillon Dingler of the Detroit Tigers has joined select Stark County baseball company.
Dingler, a catcher, was named to his first Major League Baseball All-Star team on Saturday, July 4. The game is in Philadelphia at 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 14. It will be televised by Fox.
Dingler is just the third Stark County native to be selected to the MLB All-Star Game, and the first in nearly 50 years.
Based on Repository research, Yankees legend and Canton native Thurman Munson is the last county player to be selected. He was a seven-time All-Star, with his last selection coming in 1978. Another Yankee, 1940s and 50s star Tommy Henrich of Massillon, is the other Stark County player to be selected to the All-Star Game.
"He's playing at the top of the game at a position that's really hard to play, and I say that with all respect to every position, as catcher-biased as I am," Tigers manager A.J. Hinch told the Detroit Free Press. "He's doing incredible things."
Dingler, a catcher, was named to his first Major League Baseball All-Star team on Saturday, July 4. The game is in Philadelphia at 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 14. It will be televised by Fox.
Dingler is just the third Stark County native to be selected to the MLB All-Star Game, and the first in nearly 50 years.
Based on Repository research, Yankees legend and Canton native Thurman Munson is the last county player to be selected. He was a seven-time All-Star, with his last selection coming in 1978. Another Yankee, 1940s and 50s star Tommy Henrich of Massillon, is the other Stark County player to be selected to the All-Star Game.
"He's playing at the top of the game at a position that's really hard to play, and I say that with all respect to every position, as catcher-biased as I am," Tigers manager A.J. Hinch told the Detroit Free Press. "He's doing incredible things."
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