One of the chapters in the book 📖 will be about the otherside of the diamond 💎, as Baseball has been part of the experience as well.
An eighteen year run 🏃♂️ alongside of Lawrence ” Big Picture ” Nesselrodt, a twelve year run with the Valley Baseball League, making the loop of the Major League Baseball stadiums 🏟 and the incredible ” Rookie ” season just completed by Casey Burcham at Carroll County High School are a few of the topics in this part.
Being a minority owner of one of the top Summer League teams, owning a team outright for one season and creating another team in the same league will be highlighted. Being a witness and minority contributor to the Super Man type efforts of Burcham and his Bunch will fill more than a few pages.
Baseball and Softball are similar in a number of ways but worlds apart in others. Baseball is quite possibly still America’s game, not by the wide margin that it once was but still atop the food chain. Softball has made tremendous strides as of late but it remains a blip on the radar for most folks. Knowing this, makes it so easy to want to promote the sport in every way possible.
Baseball is played in the same manner at every level and in five decades of being around the sport, I’ve never seen anyone hit the ground running like Burcham did in his first year. While the season ended one game short of the State Tournament, that shouldn’t take anything away from the rocket like start.
Greg Maddux and Tim Tebow, two people that I admire greatly both wore the uniform and I was blessed enough to join them in various Stadiums during their careers.
Will something happen today in the Border town of El Paso that will warrant being part of the story ? Maybe, Maybe not but but that’s the beauty of the game of baseball – anything can happen on any given day…
My back to back Seattle Mariners No Hitters are prove of that. Separated by a few years, Randy Johnson and Chris Bosio tossed No-No’s with both games taking place in the old Kingdome. The crowd both nights 🌙 was under 20,000 and the gems 💎 were the first two in team history.
The answer is Yes, El Paso presented something new to me ! Your food is served to you in an actual Dog 🐕 Bowl!!
A.S.P.N on The Hill 