Naturals pitcher has style all his own on, off field
BY RICH POLIKOFF
Posted on Sunday, May 31, 2009
SPRINGDALE – You could say Chris Hayes is almost too interesting.
Consider the following about the Northwest Arkansas Naturals’ relief pitcher:
Hayes was a chess prodigy as a child and majored in computer science at Northwestern University.
After making the Wildcats baseball team as a walk-on, he was a seldom-used catcher and shortstop until switching to pitching midway through his college career.
Here is the full article.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Chess prodigy? Does he have a USCF rating?
nothing in the uscf database that fits with such a claim.