Touring the Bases with…Garrett Totty

August 29, 2011 by Kevin Johnson · Leave a Comment

Garrett Totty is the Head Batboy for the Texas League Tulsa Drillers. Garrett also plays catcher on his high school baseball team at Morris (Oklahoma) High School, where this past season he was teammates with Yankee’s 18th round draft choice Hayden Sharp. Seamheads: Being a batboy on a professional team is probably something that many young […]

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Catching up with Bob Zupcic

July 21, 2011 by Andrew Martin · 2 Comments

The first professional athlete I ever met was Ted Williams, when I was about 9 years old. The experience was extremely disappointing, given how profane and cranky Williams turned out to be, even to a little kid like myself. The second professional athlete I met was Bob Zupcic, when I was about 12 or 13 […]

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