The Wandering Disciple

The baseball community mourns the loss of an icon to the sport, Hank Aaron. Hammerin' Hank got his nickname from his power at the plate. Over the course of his 23 year career, Aaron slugged a career 755 homers. When he retired from the game, he entered the front office of the Braves where he spent several years on the executive side of the sport. His impact to the game was immortalized by his number being retired by the Brewers and the Braves as well as being a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Off the field Hank was a integral part of minority programs and even an advocate during the current COVID-19 pandemic where he publicly joined Atlanta leaders in getting the vaccination .  (Photo: August 21, 2019)

North Port, Florida:  Friday night lights, Minor League Baseball style, swept over the West Villages at the Atlanta Braves opened their spring training home for some Gulf Coast League baseball.  A large crowd, uncharacteristic for a GCL game, filed into the newly built stadium for an evening of baseball action. The home team Braves jumped out to big lead in the second inning.  They collected four runs in the frame by the way of six hits to take a lead.  Joel Reyes drove in a run, Wiston Cerrato collected two, and Madson Berne plated another to give the Braves a 4-0 lead. The Brave picked up two more runs in thee bottom of the seventh by the way of a two run homer by Michael Harris, his first professional home run to make it 6-0. Braves pitching kept the Rays off the board until the eighth inning when the Rays scored a run on an RBI single by Johan Lopez for their first run of the night.  They got two more in the ninth by pushing across two runs on an er...