Indy Baseball Chatter: SAVAGE AND PARISI AMONG PITCHING LEADERS; CHRISTIAN, RODRIGUEZ AMONG BEST ON OFFENSE

Monday, May 21, 2012

SAVAGE AND PARISI AMONG PITCHING LEADERS; CHRISTIAN, RODRIGUEZ AMONG BEST ON OFFENSE

With the start of a new week, I checked up on some of the former Independent players who have been among league leaders in Class AA and AAA leagues:

Will Savage (Wichita, KS, American Association, and Lancaster, PA, Atlantic League) continues to share the Pacific Coast League lead with seven wins after taking a no-decision Saturday. Savage has been in 11 games for the Dodgers' Albuquerque farm club, starting six of them, and is 7-0 with a 3.40 earned run average.

Teammate Mike Parisi (Long Island, NY, Atlantic) has moved up to second in the PCL earned run average race. He is at 2.61 and has 32 strikeouts in 38 innings.

On the offensive side, outfielder Justin Christian, who started in Indy baseball (River City, Frontier League) and also has played for Southern Maryland (Atlantic), is still in second place in the PCL in hitting (.373) with four home runs and 23 RBI plus seven stolen bases. He is with San Francisco's Fresno farm club.

First baseman Reynaldo Rodriguez (Yuma, AZ, Golden League) is tied for second in home runs with nine in the Double-A Eastern League and is hitting .257 with 23 ribbies for Portland, ME, a Boston farm club.

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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