Southport’s Quinton McCracken enshrined in Duke’s Hall of Fame

South Brunswick alum (baseball and football) is one of nine new inductees
Jake Eichstaedt,

DURHAM, N.C. (WWAY) – Quinton McCracken has been selected to the Hall of Fame for Duke Athletics.

McCracken was a multi-sport standout at South Brunswick. As a senior in 1988 he led his baseball team to a 29–0 record and the state Championship. USA Today rated the team the fifth-best in the nation that year

McCracken was a two-sport standout on both the diamond and gridiron for the Blue Devils between 1988-92. As a second baseman on the baseball team, he earned first-team All-ACC and third-team All-America accolades in 1992 and graduated as the program’s career leader in hits (236), runs scored (187), walks (108), triples (22), stolen bases (98) and on-base percentage (.432). His list of accomplishments, which includes a career batting average of .349, landed the Southport, N.C., native on the ACC’s 50th Anniversary Team in 2003. In football, McCracken was a three-year starter at cornerback and member of Duke‘s ACC Championship squad in 1989, finishing his career with 158 tackles, five interceptions and 24 pass breakups. In addition to setting Duke‘s single-game record for pass breakups with six in a 35-26 win over N.C. State on November 11, 1989, he was a standout on special teams by returning 54 career kickoffs for 1,230 yards, good for a 22.78 yards per return average which was the second highest in school history upon his graduation. A 25th round draft pick of the Colorado Rockies in the 1992 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft, the switch-hitting outfielder enjoyed a 12-year MLB career from 1995-2006 with the Rockies, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Minnesota Twins, Arizona Diamondbacks, Seattle Mariners and Cincinnati Reds. In 999 career games, McCracken batted .274 with 118 doubles, 32 triples, 21 home runs, 244 runs batted in and 89 stolen bases. In 2002, he helped the Diamondbacks to the postseason and batted .364 with an on-base percentage of .417 as Arizona fell to St. Louis in the National League Division Series.

 

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