Adam Stern is enjoying an all-star season for Greenville, the AA farm team for the Atlanta Braves. He was the starting center fielder for the Eastern Division club in the 2004 Southern League All-Star game. He was second in the SL batting .334 as of mid-July with a career-high seven home runs and 35 RBI.
A former University of Nebraska Cornhusker, Stern was riding a 15-game hitting streak as of July 17 matching Huntsville's Tony Gwynn, Jr., for the longest streak in the SL this season. His stellar play this season comes following a disappointing 2003 campaign in which he missed four months of action due to a hamstring injury.
Stern was originally drafted by Atlanta in the third round in 2001 out of Nebraska, where he was named to the First-Team All-Academic Big 12 squad and was named a Big 12 Second-Team All-Star. At the Olympic qualifier last year he only had seven at bats but did hit one home run.
