The Phillies will hold a half-dozen open tryouts over next seven weeks
You played sandlot ball growing up, or in the schoolyard or fields back in your old neighborhood. You were one of the better players on your Little League or rec league or local age-bracket league as a kid. In high school, you had some flashes of brilliance. Maybe even dominated your league at times.
You played sandlot ball growing up, or in the schoolyard or fields back in your old neighborhood. You were one of the better players on your Little League or rec league or local age-bracket league as a kid. In high school, you had some flashes of brilliance. Maybe even dominated your league at times.
So, you’ve always thought to yourself, “I wonder if I could make it in the pros?”
I mean, okay, maybe you don’t think that you could hit big-league pitching. As Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) said in “Bull Durham“: “They throw ungodly breaking stuff in The Show. Exploding sliders.”
But maybe you’ve seen your fellow 18-20 year-olds playing on the back fields in Clearwater while visiting Phillies spring training and felt that you could compete with them.
Or maybe you’ve attended a rookie-league game up in Williamsport, or a Low-A game in Lakewood and thought that you could have made that play. You could hit the right cutoff man. You could throw as hard as that pitcher, or with better command.
