We scrimp and save and work. We look high to climb some professional ladder. Maybe we stall a few rungs from the top. We still dream. We always dream.
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Athletic trainer Travis Tims used to be in charge of getting the team’s laundry and equipment from stadium to stadium. There’s a reason he now makes checklists.

In the minors, just about everybody works two (or three or eight) jobs. Just look at John Maedel, the Chattanooga vice president and assistant general manager, who has moonlighted almost every game for the last 12 years as the p.a. announcer.

Every year, minor leaguers throw a couple no-hitters — five or seven innings solo, nine innings combined, rarely nine innings solo — and all of them ultimately footnotes. There is no single list of minor league no-nos. They just fade away.

The Mobile BayBears turned the childhood home of Hank Aaron into a museum so his legacy will never be forgotten.

The Montgomery Biscuits used city history to get its new park and team rolling.