Constantine Costa Kapothanasis
Costa Kapothanasis is a former minor league professional baseball player who played for Division I Mount Saint Mary's University. He was 3-1 with a 6.29 ERA as a college freshman, then improved to 2-2, 6.17 as a sophomore, and 4-3, 5.06 as a junior. He faded to 2-7, 6.68 his senior year. Kapothanasis then joined Greece's National Team for the 2010 European Championship, going 1-3 with a 12.34 ERA. He beat Sweden in his debut, but lost to Croatia, Germany (on a bases-loaded walk to Ludwig Glaser in relief) and Netherlands.
He also played for Greece in the 2012 European Championship, doing much better. He led Greece's team with four appearances and tossed 7 1/3 shutout innings, getting the save in the 7th/8th place game over France. In the first round, he tied Thomas Meley and Orfakanos for the most games pitched, but with more innings: Boris Bokaj, Jimmy Summers, Michal Sobotka and Enorbel Marquez.
Kapothanasis played independent minor league baseball for the Albany Quails of the South Coast League (1-3, 4.43 in 2010) and the Pensacola Pelicans of the American Association.
Sources
- Mount St. Mary's bio[permanent dead link]
- Greek Baseball Federation
- Pointstreak profile
- 2010 Euros Archived 2014-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
- 2012 Euros Archived 2012-10-17 at the Wayback Machine
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