Dennis Konuszewski

Konuszewski attended Bridgeport High School in Bridgeport, Michigan where he played baseball, basketball and football. As a junior in 1988, he had an earned run average of 1.47 followed by a 0.78 ERA in 1989. Over his final two seasons of high school he tallied 187 strikeouts in 129 innings. He was named all-state as both a junior and a senior and won multiple Michigan baseball player of the year awards.
After recruiting trips to Central Michigan, Texas A&M, Cal State Fullerton and Portland State, Konuszewski committed to play college baseball for Michigan. Konuszewski chose to attend Michigan despite being taken in the fifteenth round of the 1989 MLB Draft by the New York Yankees. At Michigan, Konuszewski formed a battery with Mike Matheny and would become the team's top starting pitcher. In 1991, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod Baseball…