Another Bumbry is bashing baseballs in the Baltimore area again, and this one is not named Al.
Steve Bumbry is a senior at Dulaney High School, but already he is gaining attention from professional scouts for his play on the diamond. For now, Bumbry has committed to attend Virginia Tech on a baseball scholarship.
His father, former Baltimore Oriole outfielder Al Bumbry, is proud. “He is a more fundamentally-sound hitter than I was at that stage of the game,” said the elder Bumbry, who is a Virginia native.
At 5-feet-11 and 185 pounds, Steve is slightly bigger than his father. Like his father, Steve wears No. 1 on his uniform. He bats left handed – like his father – and he can also cover a lot of ground in center field. The biggest difference: Steve throws left-handed and Al threw right-handed.
“He is a combination of strength and speed,” said Carl Allender, the Dulaney baseball coach. Bumbry is a four-year starter and three-year captain for the Lions.
Bumbry is dynamic leader for Dulaney. Allender even referred to him as a “coach on the field,” a quality he certainly received from his father.
“He is a huge influence on me,” Steve said of his father.
Al Bumbry, a member of the 1983 World Series? champs with Baltimore, is a co-head coach with the Orioles.
Said Allender: “It is unique and special to have a major leaguer out here.”
Though he plans on attending Virginia Tech next fall, Steve Bumbry has gotten some attention from professional scouts. That is mainly because he played this past fall under Dean Albany, with the Maryland Oriolanders.
Steve said that he would need to get the right offer to sign with a professional team after his spring season. “It would need to be better than the scholarship I am getting from Virginia Tech,” Steve said.
THE BUMBRY FILE
Sport: Baseball
Position: Center field
High School: Dulaney
Future College: Virginia Tech
Did you know? Bumbry upped his power numbers in his junior year, belting seven homers compared to none as a sophomore. He improved his RBI total from 16 to 39 and batted a solid .434 as a junior in 2005. Even with the increase of offensive power, Bumbry?s speed on the base path did not suffer; he stole 32 bases in both his sophomore and junior years.
