University of Vermont Athletic Hall of Fame
John McCord 1967 - Baseball
One of the top pitchers in UVM baseball history and a 1995 Athletic Hall of Fame inductee, John McCord's name can still be found numerous times in the baseball record books. He is still the school's all-time leader in career earned run average with sparkling 1.40 ERA during his three-year career. A tall, slender right-hander, McCord finished his career in the top 10 in four other pitching categories: career wins (11), career strikeouts (105), single-season strikeouts (57 in 1966) and single-season ERA (1.28, 1966).
He earned All-Yankee Conference First Team honors in 1966 as the Catamounts went 11-6. In his first season with the Catamounts, he was in the rotation as UVM earned a share of the Yankee Conference title and played UConn in a NCAA Tournament play-in game. An excellent all-around athlete, McCord was occasionally called upon to pinch-hit by his coach, the late Ralph Lapointe.
McCord graduated from the University of Louisville School of Law in 1970, and was a partner at a major Louisville law firm form 1970-77. He left the firm to become an owner and President of a coal mining river terminal company in Louisville. He served in that capacity until 1984, when he became an owner of a manufacturing company. In 1989, he became chairman and owner of a national natural gas marketing and consulting business.
