2019 Mets Fantasy Camp

  Henry Aaron passed away today. In my fortunate career in the employ of a major league baseball team I never had the opportunity to meet him. But I certainly wish I had.  He was amazing in who he was before, during and after his tenure in the major leagues. He was from very modest means and worked hard to become one of the greatest players the game has ever seen.  He once told his father that he wanted to become an airline pilot. "Ain't no black pilots.", his father replied. He then told him that he wanted to become a major league baseball player. "Ain't no black major league ballplayers either" said his father. But that wasn't enough to stop him from trying to make his dream come true.  My father was a huge Hank Aaron fan. My father worked for a restaurant which had season tickets 12 rows behind the New York Mets dugout. I would usually talk my father into taking us to one game per season. But since he was making the decision it would be when HE wanted...

Greetings to all of my MFC brothers and sisters, I have so very much enjoyed reading the posts from this year's rookies and the veterans who have offered their own stories of experiences that could fill volumes with great memories.  To the rookies who are reading this, some of those veterans will tell you the I am the unofficial poet laureate of MFC.  I have attended camps in the years 2013-2019, excluding 2015.  I wrote a daily blog for each of those camp weeks.  I've had the pleasure of having campers tell me how much they have enjoyed my writings each morning as they have followed my blogs written each evening before my heading to bed and looking forward to the next day's festivities.  I've also had rookies come over to my locker on the first day or two of camp to tell me that they'd read my blogs before making the trip to PSL and had looked forward to meeting me in person.  For someone who never much liked writing while I was in school, I found that w...