Indy Baseball Chatter: IT IS A BANNER POSTSEASON; 12 ONETIME INDY PLAYERS SET FOR PLAY

Tuesday, October 01, 2019

IT IS A BANNER POSTSEASON; 12 ONETIME INDY PLAYERS SET FOR PLAY

While a handful of former Independent Baseball players usually take part in major league baseball's postseason party it appears more than twice that amount and most likely an even dozen will have that opportunity this autumn. Seven of the 12 actually played their initial professional games in an Indy league.

The American Association earns the top bragging rights with six of its grads lined up to participate while the Frontier League has four. The Atlantic League and the United Shore League have one apiece.

The players in position for such honors although official rosters do not need to be posted until it is time for each team to play. An asterisk (*) indicates which players started in an Indy league.

Atlanta: *RHP Chris Martin (Grand Prairie, American Association)
Los Angeles Dodgers: LHP Rich Hill (Long Island, Atlantic League)
Milwaukee: RHP Junior Guerra (Wichita, American Association)
Minnesota: *RHP Randy Dobnak (Utica, United Shore)
New York Yankees: *LHP James Paxton (Grand Prairie)
Oakland: *RHP Tanner Roark (Southern Illinois, Frontier League)
Tampa Bay: *RHP Nick Anderson (Frontier Greys and Rockford, Frontier); * RHP Trevor Richards (Gateway, Frontier); RHP Chaz Roe (Laredo, American Association)
St. Louis: RHP John Brebbia (Laredo and Sioux Falls, American Association); 1B-OF Jose Martinez (Rockford)
Washington: *RHP Max Scherzer (Fort Worth, American Association)

Houston is the only team among the 10 in postseason play without any Independent players on its roster.

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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