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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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.
And why do we have to look back to the story of a man gone nearly 50 years for an answer?
Peoria radio broadcaster Nathan Baliva lives to call games. With his year-round schedule of games all over the state — the Chiefs, colleges and high schools — he loves to call them, too.
For more than a century, the Barons have been the heart of Birmingham baseball. Next year, they will move from the suburbs to a new downtown stadium.
The Tennessee manager is in his first season with the Smokies, but managed his first team more than three decades ago when he was still in his 20s. The games have piled up over time — 4,000? Maybe 5,000? Who knows? Not Bailey.
Before he played in the majors, Jonny Gomes hit 63 homers in the minors, suffered a heart attack and, on a lighter note, became a certified personal trainer.
The Dragons faltered on their way to a 9-1 loss to the Kane County Cougars, but fans were still entertained between innings ... by the ZOOperstars.
