Growing up, my dream, much like most young kids, was to play professional baseball. Although in my home town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, most kids wanted to play in the NHL, my problem was I could not skate and was not too fond of the cold. Go figure!

When I did reach my goals of attaining a baseball scholarship and the chance to play professionally, it could not get any better. The road to that first appearance was another story.

My four years at York College in Nebraska gave me the experience of the playing against the top NAIA competition in the Midwest, develop leadership skills I never knew I had, h...

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