According to recent articles from PokerNews.com and Walworth County Today, Eric "basebaldy" Baldwin, recently donated enough money to his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (UW-W), that the school was able to purchase a whole new lighting system for their campus baseball field.

Now thanks to Baldwin- who was himself a proud UW-W Warhawk baseball player, before graduating, moving to Vegas, getting sponsored by UB and earning over $2 million in live tournament scores- the UW-W will be able to host the 2010 Midwest regional competition of the Division III baseball national championship tournament.

The UW-W hasn't hosted that tournament since 2005, which coincidentally enough, was also the year they won it, thanks in no small part to starting right fielder Eric Baldwin.

Eric "basebaldy" Baldwin is a native Wisconsinite, originally from Beaver Dam (about halfway between Fond du Lac and Madison).


Story by Mark Anderson