Indy Baseball Chatter: SHAWN HILL AND STEVE DELABAR COME UP BIG IN HANDING YANKEES KEY LOSS

Saturday, September 29, 2012

SHAWN HILL AND STEVE DELABAR COME UP BIG IN HANDING YANKEES KEY LOSS

Score another one for Independent Baseball.

Shawn Hill, who was with York, PA in the Atlantic League until June 18, made his first major league appearance since 2010 Saturday, and it was a dandy. The right-hander hurled three hitless innings (two walks) while Toronto was coming back to hand the New York Yankees a major loss, 3-2. Eight of his nine outs in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings were on ground balls. The loss cut the Yankees' American League East lead to one-half game pending Baltimore's game against Boston Saturday night.

Steve Delabar, a veteran of two Independent leagues, worked a scoreless eighth inning for the Blue Jays although he also walked a pair. Delabar pitched for Brockton, MA of the Can-Am League and Florence, KY of the Frontier League.

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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