Who says road trips are just for undergrads?
This past weekend, members of our program's baseball committee made the trip from San Diego to Phoenix, AZ where we were hosted by Blake Schilly and the Milwaukee Brewers at the Brewers' spring training facility. Blake is the operations manager at Maryvale Baseball Park and was kind enough to give us a tour of the facility, which occupies 56 acres of land and consists of a main ballpark (10,000 capacity), five full practice fields, and two half-sized practice fields.
Following the tour, we took our seats five rows behind home plate and watched the Brewers' ace, Yovani Gallardo, face off against the best of the Kansas City Royals' staff, Zack Greinke. Highlights of the game included Prince Fielder's impressive first-inning home run, Trot Nixon making it through the entire game uninjured, and our hosts winning 5-1.
A big thanks to Blake for taking the time to introduce us to the business side of spring training baseball. It was a memorable trip for sure.
Tyler Griggs, SMBA 2010
I'm not sure if you guys will see this considering the date of this blog post, but...I would love to hear more about your program's "baseball committee". Any info would be appreciated. Thanks in advance
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