This guy – the best player from Warsaw since my cousin, Jerry Lumpe – or maybe Jeremy’s brother – was drafted in the second round by the Oakland A’s. (Jerry played for the Kansas City A’s at one point.) Can’t…
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Earlier this year ago I sat down in the Missouri State University baseball players lounge with a shortstop from Warsaw, MO. He’s the best player from the area since, I suppose, his brother, who was drafted by Tampa Bay in…
I took a photo of this ballplayer in June and I wondered how he got here. So I wrote this: “Can he hit a curveball? How many times has he taken cuts at batting cages attached to mini-golf courses? Maybe…
The Missouri State game started 50 minutes late, a regular occurrence this weekend. I wandered around the concourse watching Indiana State beat Evansville, and wondered which players were dreaming of the draft next month. Who wouldn’t? Getting drafted, like getting married, seems to…
I settled into my middle seat, next to a guy holding a catchers mitt in his hands and watching the wheels spin on other planes. But then he placed the mitt on his lap and turned his phone toward me,…
It’s possible some employees of the St. Louis Cardinals organization tampered with the Houston Astros player database. The Cardinals look bad, which is almost as good as other teams doing well. Still, it’s particularly embarrassing for an organization that prides…