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Congrats to Millville’s Mike Trout: AL Rookie of the Year

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
Mike Trout.

Mike Trout.

On Monday, former South Jersey baseball standout Mike Trout was unanimously named the American League Rookie of the Year for the 2012 Major League Baseball season.

Trout, from Millville, New Jersey, tore up the big leagues in his first year with the Angels, popping 30 homers, a league-leading 49 steals and a league-high 129 runs.

Trout was recently in Atlantic City following the Angels’ exit from the post-season this fall.

He was in Millville yesterday when he received the news.

Read our interview with Trout from 2011 here.

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Angels Rookie Phenom Mike Trout in Atlantic City

Monday, October 8th, 2012
Trout, center, with Carmine's staff.

Trout, center, with Carmine's staff.

Millville’s Mike Trout, who has had one of the best rookie seasons in Major League Baseball in a long while, playing with the Los Angeles Angels, came back to South Jersey over the weekend following the end of the baseball season (the Angels’ 2012 season is done following last Monday’s loss in a wild-card game).

Trout, who could be named either the American League MVP or Rookie of the Year (or both), dined at Carmine’s at the Quarter at Tropicana in Atlantic City over the weekend.

Read more about the baseball phenom here and his South Jersey roots here.

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Millville’s Mike Trout Called Up to The Show

Friday, July 8th, 2011
Mike Trout.

Mike Trout.

Millville’s baseball phenom Mike Trout was going to be in the big leagues eventually. After all, he is rated the best prospect in all of minor league baseball.

However, Trout, who is tearing it up in the Double A Texas League for Arkansas, batting .324 with 32 extra-base hits, a .415 on-base percentage and a Texas League-leading 28 stolen bases, got the word yesterday that the Angels want him right now because of an injury to centerfielder Peter Bourjos. It might be a temporary stay for the 19-year-old, but if he delivers with a few clutch hits, he might be able to extend his stay.

Just a little more than two years ago, Trout was a senior at Millville High School. Amazing! Check out Nate Mulberg’s story and interview.

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ESPN Follows AC Weekly’s Lead, Jumps on Mike Trout Bandwagon.

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Well, maybe not quite, but…

Just over a day had passed since we uploaded a great piece, written by Nate Mulberg, on Millville’s baseball phenom Mike Trout, to Atlantic City Weekly’s Web site, in relation to the Los Angeles Angels minor league star being selected 12th overall in a “fantasy baseball franchise draft” conducted by ESPN when the sports station’s Web site espn.com featured the following story: “Mike Trout Waits for His Moment.”

(Of course, our story had come after the ESPN draft, thus making the claim that ESPN stole our idea completely null and void.)

The follow-up ESPN piece includes a conversation with the Angels’ outfield prospect (who plays for the Arkansas Travelers currently, the Angels’ double-A team) about moving from southern New Jersey to Arkansas.

Check it out.

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