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Skip Skalnik, infielder

Posted by olabner on July 2, 2018October 10, 2018 in College, Missouri State, Photos

Ah, Skip – the nicest and most charismatic player I never got to interview! I suppose it was scheduling conflicts, but now he’s done with baseball. Skip also got himself a good girl to spend his days with. Hurrah! by

Drew Millas, catcher

Posted by olabner on June 25, 2018October 10, 2018 in College, Missouri State, Photos

Drew! What a guy. He got to play in the Cape Cod League, which has about the prettiest collection of fields this side of Iowa. Hoping his hip has healed and he keeps leading the team onward, powered, as always,…

Hunter Steinmetz, centerfielder

Posted by olabner on June 18, 2018October 10, 2018 in Missouri State, Photos

Hunter got drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 11th round and shipped off to Bluefield, then Vancouver(!). He gave up a year of eligibility to sign, but with his speed and strength I think it’s wise. by

Dylan Coleman, pitcher

Posted by olabner on June 11, 2018October 10, 2018 in College, Missouri State, Photos

Dylan, owner of the world’s worst haircut, was drafted as a junior by the San Diego Padres. by

Jeremy Eierman, shortstop

Posted by olabner on June 4, 2018October 10, 2018 in College, Missouri State, Photos

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…

The Bears in Black and White

Posted by olabner on May 5, 2018May 5, 2018 in College, Missouri State, Photos

Missouri State and Kansas, in which a KU player climbed into the stands, apparently to defend a parent from the taunts of frat boys. The player and the parent stayed in the park, but the frat boys did not. Someone…

Jake.

Posted by olabner on February 26, 2018February 26, 2018 in AL, Chicago White Sox, Minors, Missouri State, MLB, Uncategorized

I was writing up an interview with Jeremy Eierman, a 21-year-old junior shortstop at Missouri State and highly touted MLB draft prospect. But then I read that Jake Burger had been carted off the field after suffering an Achilles injury….

Photo gallery deux, Battle for Bell: Missouri State edition

Posted by olabner on September 27, 2017September 27, 2017 in College, Missouri State, Photos

Behold – a few more photos of the Missouri State Bears vs. Drury University during the second Battle for Bell exhibition, an ALS fundraiser on September 23 in Ozark, MO. Check the Bears’ fall ball schedule and watch them at…

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Catching up with Aaron Meyer: “Injuries make you feel how lucky you are”

Posted by olabner on September 25, 2017July 16, 2019 in College, Missouri State

You remember Aaron Meyer. As a senior second baseman for  Missouri State, he tore his patellar tendon running to first base last April. We’d never spoken, but I watched from behind home plate. Late that night I wrote one of my…

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Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn acts like a brat and I get compared to Jesus: perspectives on competitive fire in the rain

Posted by olabner on June 5, 2017June 5, 2017 in College, Missouri State, Photos

First I got compared to Jesus. Then it got weird. Arkansas defeated Missouri State in a 6-hour game punctuated by a rain delay and Hogs coach Dave Van Horn showing his tusks. I stood in the well alongside the Bears…

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