Tagged: Now Batting For Leave a comment. Shortly thereafter, Snider was summoned to Syracuse , where he played eighteen games, and on Thursday he made the final leap, receiving the call from the Blue Jays. His arrival in Toronto caps a meteoric rise that began this season at Class A Dunedin and ends on the turf at Rogers Centre. Not bad for a year-old kid. To make room for Snider, the ageless Matt Stairs was designated for assignment and, from the tone of that article, handled it very professionally and is likely be traded.
Tagged: Angel Davila , Nashua Pride. The one hosted to perfection by Robert Stack? To recap: prior to the season, the Nashua Pride hung numbers on the front of the press box to commemmorate important players in team history. Glenn Murray and Butch Hobson are honored for their contributions to Nashua baseball; several others, including Curtis Pride, performed admirably in the city before returning to the major leagues.
The mystery was enticing, the team staff utterly useless. Anyway, the general manager I think it was the general manager, anyway was the least useless because he directed me to the people who could answer the question: the Boosters Club and a gentleman named Spike, who attends a good many games and used to be known for bringing a cowbell this was before someone decided they should sell cowbells in the ballpark.
Not a good idea. I made my move at the end of the eighth. The Pride had just broken a tie with a six-run rally the eventual game-winner was hit by Edgard Clemente, nephew of Roberto and Spike was sitting in a lower row in my section, so I figured what the hell. I walked down, made my approach, and told the small group that I had a question and thought they were the guys to answer it. Spike thought he had gone on to the major leagues as a coach for the Reds, hence the special circular honor.
Like many things associated with the Pride, the resolution was, in my opinion, a bit underwhelming. The rest of the ballpark experience was typical. And, not to get too crazy personal or anything, for the first time in awhile, my wife and I actually talked , just shot the shit about her mother and some work and other little stuff.
