ABC Baseball and Big League Edge Baseball Team Up for a Winning Combination!

America's Baseball Camps is honored to be partnered with the team at Big League Edge Performance Baseball to bring quality baseball instruction to the Pacific Northwest. It is our hope that through our objective approach to training which delivers cutting edge baseball techniques and philosophies to amateur baseball, players can feel confident that they are training in the same regimens that current major league superstars utilize to experience success at the top level of the game.

Big League Edge Baseball was founded by former Major League pitching great Jim Parque. Following a stellar high school career in Crescenta Valley High School in southern California, Jim received a full athletic scholarship to UCLA. In 1995, while attending UCLA, Jim earned Pac-10 honors and Freshman All American honors. In 1996, Parque pitched the Bruins to a Texas Regional berth final. Jim made the All Regional team pitching a combined ten innings against Texas and Miami. In the summer of 1996, Parque pitched for Team USA in the Atlanta Olympics- winning Bronze.

In1997, Parque pitched UCLA to a College World Series Berth. He led all of Division I baseball in wins (16-2), striking out 119 batters in 123 innings, while posting a 2.89 ERA. This landed Jim an All American, Smith Super Team, Pac 10 Pitcher of the Year, and a first round draft pick by the Chicago White Sox. Jim finished out his collegiate career as one of the top pitchers to ever attend UCLA.

Jim's professional career started out on the fast track. After going 7-2, 2.77 ERA, 61 innings pitched, 29 hits, Jim made his major league debut just three months after signing on April 15, 1998 against the New York Yankees. In 2000, Parque helped pitch the White Sox to an American League Pennant, posting a 13-6 record, 4.08 ERA, with 197 innings pitched. Jim pitched for six seasons in the major leagues with the White Sox, Devil Rays, and Diamondbacks. He injured his arm in 2002 and retired from professional baseball in 2004.