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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Every season, thousands of host families open their homes to young players. There are 21 host families in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, including Don and Robin Grawe, who landed a pair of future all-stars in their spare bedroom.
Every season, six Arkansas Travelers stadium operations interns live in an apartment at Dickey-Stephens Park. Free rent? Hardly. They work for every cent.
The Nashville Sounds clubhouse manager handles seven teams in seven cities, and still welds during the offseason.
Roger Dean Stadium is the only facility that houses two minor league teams. The logistics are far from easy.
During the 1984 season, Sam Bernabe was an Iowa Cubs intern, pumping stormwater out of dugouts and cleaning locker rooms. Now he is president and general manager of the team and chairman of the minor league board of trustees.
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.
