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>>And so the UConn-palooza rolls on. Will it ever end? Neither rain nor snow (in right field Wednesday at Yankee Stadium) nor sleet (that fell early Wednesday morning) could contain its reign. It's not even basketball anymore. Let the record show that Wednesday, April 16, 2014 was UConn Baseball Day in the majors, a tribute to what coach Jim Penders has wrought.
It was a little after noon in the Big Bad City and there was Mike Olt, UConn kid, standing on the lawn of Yankee Stadium. Mike Olt, designated hitter, Chicago Cubs.
And then it was a little after 8 p.m. and there was George Springer, UConn kid, his Major League debut, standing at Minute Maid Park in Houston, in the same state where the men's basketball team made history a week earlier. George Springer, outfielder, Houston Astros.<<
>>How timely, really, that UConn baseball gets this moment. Because nobody else - nobody - does more with less at UConn than Penders, whose facilities are, ahem, modest compared to his brethren in the American and formerly the Big East. His teams have made NCAA tournaments in recent years, all from a part of the country that's barely a boil on the buttocks of the college baseball stratum.<<
>>And so the UConn-palooza rolls on. Will it ever end? Neither rain nor snow (in right field Wednesday at Yankee Stadium) nor sleet (that fell early Wednesday morning) could contain its reign. It's not even basketball anymore. Let the record show that Wednesday, April 16, 2014 was UConn Baseball Day in the majors, a tribute to what coach Jim Penders has wrought.
It was a little after noon in the Big Bad City and there was Mike Olt, UConn kid, standing on the lawn of Yankee Stadium. Mike Olt, designated hitter, Chicago Cubs.
And then it was a little after 8 p.m. and there was George Springer, UConn kid, his Major League debut, standing at Minute Maid Park in Houston, in the same state where the men's basketball team made history a week earlier. George Springer, outfielder, Houston Astros.<<
>>How timely, really, that UConn baseball gets this moment. Because nobody else - nobody - does more with less at UConn than Penders, whose facilities are, ahem, modest compared to his brethren in the American and formerly the Big East. His teams have made NCAA tournaments in recent years, all from a part of the country that's barely a boil on the buttocks of the college baseball stratum.<<
