Indy Baseball Chatter: CAN-AM'S COLABELLO BACK IN MAJORS

Friday, July 19, 2013

CAN-AM'S COLABELLO BACK IN MAJORS

With the Minnesota Twins struggling 14 games under .500, longtime Can-Am League star and current International League RBI machine Chris Colabello was recalled to the American League team Friday in time to help usher in the second half of the season.

We had projected in Thursday’s Independent Baseball Insider column that Colabello could be wearing a Twins uniform for the fourth time this season, and logic would say this will be a longer trial for the first baseman-outfielder. He was 2-for-16 in seven appearances–his first in the major leagues–the first three trips combined.

Fresh from a 1-for-3 game in the Triple-A All-Star Game (although he was shut out in the home run-hitting contest), the seven-year Can-Am veteran (Worcester, MA and Nashua, NH) will bring a season log of .354-24-76, all among International League leaders, with him to Minnesota. He could face another former Indy player, Cleveland lefty Scott Kazmir (Sugar Land, TX, Atlantic League), Friday night.

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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