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?
Call Las Vegas what you want — The Marriage Capital of the World, The City of Second Chances, Sin City — just make sure you call it home to a minor league baseball team. The 51s play here, and they have stories to tell.
He is an owner, a president and a professor, a husband, a father and a son, a salesman, a showman and a friend. He is also the most famous face today in the most fun family in all of baseball.
The Lake Elsinore Storm received national attention for their Tim Tebow trade proposal and Charlie Sheen-co de Mayo promotion. How does the team keep making headlines?
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.
