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Reply to "College Summer Leagues-The Times They Are a Changing"

I remember one year of college summer ball my coach promised fourteen position players starting positions. Two got pissed and walked away. It made life a little easier.

The next season I changed teams to an honest coach. He told me I was his center fielder. The previous coach told me, “But you were going to be an every game starter this year.” Sure I was! He just didn’t want me playing against his team. A lot of players didn’t return the following year. He pulled the same BS on a new round of recruits.

Looking back I did something not so mature in BP the first game against my old team. The previous coach was standing down the right field line chatting with someone. I lined every pitch down the right field line. I was trying to hit him. I did keep him alert. He had me drilled in my first at bat. Then, given this was baseball in the 70’s I knocked his shortstop into next week breaking up a double play.

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