Indy Baseball Chatter: EXTENSIVE COVERAGE PLANNED DURING SPRING TRAINING

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

EXTENSIVE COVERAGE PLANNED DURING SPRING TRAINING

Dear Baseball Fans,

Today's contribution to this blog will be like nothing else we have given our baseball-hungry audience because it is to advise you of special coverage we will be offering during the month of major league Grapefruit and Cactus League exhibitions.

Even though we kick our regular subscriber-only Independent Baseball Insider coverage into high gear with weekly columns starting March 6, we will continue to bring you what we believe are very interesting stories and sidelights regarding Independent Baseball on this blog whenever we can. And here is the bonus. Starting Friday, February 29, and continuing every Monday, Wednesday and Friday until the exhibition season has ended we will bring you up to date on important news involving the nearly 50 former Independent players in major league camps here on www.IndyBaseballChatter.com.

Who is hot. What players may sneak onto a regular season roster or get added playing time. We will include appropriate game accomplishments (and some failures) plus quotes and statistics, when they mean something.

As always, we will be gathering information in a number of ways, including what I can offer firsthand from an extensive time traveling in Florida. We hope you will share the news of the spring training coverage with your fellow Independent Baseball fans. And when you spot something interesting that we have not reported, please let us know.

We also have another exciting development regarding Independent Baseball which we will be sharing with you in the days to come. We would like to think our columns, our book, The Independent Minor Leagues: 2007 Season in Review, and this blog all are services to fans of Independent Baseball.

Let the games begin.

Bob Wirz

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Bob Wirz

Former chief spokesman for Major League Baseball Commissioners Bowie Kuhn and Peter Ueberroth. Six years as publicity director for the Kansas City Royals, and a background in newspaper, radio and television. Started Wirz & Associates, a sports PR and consulting firm, in 1985. Has written extensively on Independent Baseball since 2003.

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About 'My Nebraska'

It seems almost universally accepted that Nebraskans are friendly, hard-working people.

A native son, who eventually transitioned to the East Coast because it was the best avenue to follow his passion of continuing to work in major league baseball, has published a book to share a lifetime of memories of growing up in the Cornhusker state.

You may have guessed it when you saw the title: My Nebraska. Yes, Bob Wirz, now a youthful 85, is sharing his "rich memories of growing up in rural Nebraska" in the 1940s and 1950s in a delightful 136 pages in the book produced by Dorrance Publishing in Pittsburgh, PA.

Wirz, who got to live his passion of working at the highest levels of baseball and later developing his own sports public relations and marketing company, lovingly empties out his memories of everything from counting millions of tiny trees to playing grass-roots baseball where the age of teammates might run from the early teens to the 50s.

The colorful cover of My Nebraska, which features two paintings from Dunning, NE rancher/artist Laron McGinn that depict the beautiful landscape of rural Nebraska and the ranching lifestyle, sets the tone for the 5 x 8 book also filled with meaningful pictures.

It is "a wistful and endearing love letter to Nebraska filled with memories shared by generations raised in small towns throughout the Midwest", praises Shari Veil, who heads up the journalism and mass communications department at the University of Nebraska.

My Nebraska, a 5x8 paperback, is priced at $19.95 plus $4.00 for handling and shipping. Autographed copies may be ordered at www.WirzandAssociates.com