Tomislav Ćurković

Tomislav Ćurković

• Bats Left, Throws Right

• Born August 1, 1980

Biographical Information

Tomislav Ćurković was an outfielder for the first Croatian national teams to play in an European Championship.

In the 1999 European Championship, the teenager was 2 for 11 with two walks. Starting in center, he had 8 putouts and one error while also handling 12 putouts in a game at 1B, where Dario Vojak started. He hit .333/.333/.600 in the 2001 European Championship with six runs and five doubles in eight games. He fielded .933 and had one assist. He led Croatia in average (.025 ahead of Romeil Agladious), runs (tied with American and Canadian imports Dan Vardijan and Ryan Brnardic), hits (10, one ahead of Vardijan), doubles, slugging (.067 ahead of Vardijan), total bases (18) and extra-base hits (6, one more than Vardijan). The leaderboard (which did not count the final day of placement games) showed him ranking tied for 4th with four doubles (2 behind Rodolfo Veitia and one behind David Meurant and Pavel Budský).

He batted .320/.370/.480 in the 2003 European Championship and had 19 putouts in the field without an error. He led Croatia in hits again (8, one ahead of Andy Tarabaccia) and had their lone homer while his four runs were one shy of Marko Pavlakovic. He fell to .125/.160/.167 in the 2005 European Championship and had five more putouts.