Episode 25: Episode 25: Chris Hook

My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is the pitching coach for the Milwaukee Brewers Chris Hook.
“Hooky” grew up in Erlanger, Kentucky and graduated from Lloyd Memorial High School. He played sports growing up for Dixie Knothole and Erlanger Lions Club but it was baseball that he would develop of love for and make it his passion.
After a successful high school career he played in college for Bill Aker at Northern Kentucky University. Hooky was a three-year letter winner as a starting pitcher from 1987-89. His junior year team in 1989 went 45-9 and just missed an appearance in the NCAA D-II World Series.
Hooky signed as a free agent with the Cincinnati Reds organization after his junior season at NKU. He signed after a college tryout and played five years in the Reds organization.
Hooky was traded to the San Francisco Giants organization and was called up to the big leagues in 1995. He spent parts of two seasons in the big leagues earning five wins in 55 bullpen appearances.
After being sent down in 1996 he pitched until 1999 when he retired and came back to his new home in Florence, Kentucky.
Hooky returned to NKU as the pitching coach for the Norse for three seasons before joining the expansion Florence Freedom of the independent Frontier League in 2003.
After a tumultuous five year stint with the Freedom he was hired by the Milwaukee Brewers in 2008 to be the pitching coach for the Double-A affiliate Huntsville Stars.
In 2018, Hooky returned to the big leagues as the Brewers pitching coach after the departure of Derek Johnson.
Cover photo credit goes to Scott Paulus/Milwaukee Brewers
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Check out the Nobody’s Safe website at nobodysssafe.fireside.fm (https://nobodysssafe.fireside.fm)
For more information on Stove Leg Media go the website StoveLeg.com (https://www.stoveleg.com) or send an email to [email protected]
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My guest on this episode of Nobody’s Safe w/Brady Laber is the pitching coach for the Milwaukee Brewers Chris Hook.

“Hooky” grew up in Erlanger, Kentucky and graduated from Lloyd Memorial High School. He played sports growing up for Dixie Knothole and Erlanger Lions Club but it was baseball that he would develop of love for and make it his passion.

After a successful high school career he played in college for Bill Aker at Northern Kentucky University. Hooky was a three-year letter winner as a starting pitcher from 1987-89. His junior year team in 1989 went 45-9 and just missed an appearance in the NCAA D-II World Series.

Hooky signed as a free agent with the Cincinnati Reds organization after his junior season at NKU. He signed after a college tryout and played five years in the Reds organization.

Hooky was traded to the San Francisco Giants organization and was called up to the big leagues in 1995. He spent parts of two seasons in the big leagues earning five wins in 55 bullpen appearances.

After being sent down in 1996 he pitched until 1999 when he retired and came back to his new home in Florence, Kentucky.

Hooky returned to NKU as the pitching coach for the Norse for three seasons before joining the expansion Florence Freedom of the independent Frontier League in 2003.

After a tumultuous five year stint with the Freedom he was hired by the Milwaukee Brewers in 2008 to be the pitching coach for the Double-A affiliate Huntsville Stars.

In 2018, Hooky returned to the big leagues as the Brewers pitching coach after the departure of Derek Johnson.

Cover photo credit goes to Scott Paulus/Milwaukee Brewers

You can follow Brady Laber on Twitter @BradyLaber1 please use the hashtag #NobodysSafe

Check out the Nobody’s Safe website at nobodysssafe.fireside.fm

For more information on Stove Leg Media go the website StoveLeg.com or send an email to [email protected]

Intro music for the podcast was provided by bensoud.com