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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We sat down with the great swinger. No seriously, he’s on the Lexington Legends front office roster.
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.
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 Kansas City Royals have already called up handfuls of their top prospects. A few, including minor league home run leader Wil Myers, are still with the Omaha Storm Chasers. Their day will come.
Todd Baker spends every inning of every Mississippi Braves game out in the bullpen in full uniform, waiting to work. He will never step on the field during a game, though. Such is the life of a minor league bullpen catcher.
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.
