Hartsville, South Carolina, is just down the road from the Fort Mill area and is famous for the nearby Darlington Nascar track and for being the home to Coker University.

The story in regards to baseball for Adams is a similar one to most of the student athletes who have played for Lawrence Nesselrodt at West Virginia Tech University over the past 20 years. You fall in love with the game at an early age, play it well enough to be given the opportunity to further your education because of it. Finally, the day comes when you reach the end of the journey in regards to playing the game, and you dabble in the coaching end of the pool.

The two hour conversation with Adams took place down in Surf Side Beach, South Carolina, and brought back fond memories of the term, Love for the Game. When you play at a small college, whether it be at a Coker, WVU-T, or any of hundreds of others that fall into a similar category, you are chasing a different type of dream.

One of the players that Britton grew up with in the Rock Hill / Fort Mill area, just south of Charlotte, was Jordan Thurmond. Thurmond could be a poster child for a baseball player at Tech as he graduated back in 2025.

Aerospace engineering is one of many degrees that are available at Tech as the bulk of players who attend are doing so in hopes of landing a career outside of a ball diamond. The true definition of a college student athlete !

Adams remained at Coker for another season of baseball, this time on the coaching side of the lines. The jury is still out on a future with baseball in it.

You see the well-known commercials about the very small percentage of college athletes who will eventually turn professional in their sports. Just know that most are taking full advantage of the educational avenue that is being presented to them !

Baseball and softball are games that you love to play as a child. If you are really fortunate, you can continue to play them throughout your high school days. Then, a small percentage will still have enough talent and desire to make their way onto a college roster, and from there, it becomes about your commitment to excellence and yourself.

Jordan Thurmond is making the most out of his opportunities, and Britton Adams is doing the same !

  Being a Seattle baseball fan has been a tough go over the decades as the current franchise is one of just a handful in professional sports that has never competed for a Championship, let alone won a trophy. Last season was a close call when they were once again within one game of making it to the World Series before Toronto held them at bay.

Milwaukee was looking for a team to replace their Braves after they packed up and moved to Atlanta after the 1965 season and they found a bargain when the Seattle Pilots became available for the equivalent of pizza money a few years later in 1969.

The Pilots became the Brewers, and just like the Mariners, the team was a fun watch but enjoyed limited success. Finally, in 1982 the Brew Crew made it to the Fall Classic but ran into Whitey Herzog and the St. Louis Cardinals.

It was a little ironic that we lived in St Louis back then as my Dad retired from the Navy and went to work for McDonnell – Douglas in STL. That company would later be swallowed by Boeing, the Seattle based company that led to the team being named the Pilots.

In typical Seattle, baseball fashion, the Brewers would need 50+ years to finally drink champagne in the locker room. But for tonight and the purpose of closing out this book on a lifetime of softball and baseball stories, we will reflect back to the great year of 1969 and celebrate a Seattle World Series title !