Ron Nelson
Ron Nelson
Ron Nelson is a composer of both classical and popular music and a retired music academic...
american-journalist baseball coaches football good lucky
You've got to have good coaches around you in football and baseball to be able to do both. I've been lucky from that standpoint.
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All we tried to tell the city was that if they were going to charge the citizens for mandatory trash, they need to clean up their own mess.
good past practices suspect week
I think they're still the same Shaw they've been in the past. And I suspect they've had some good practices over there this week as well as we've had over here.
hit
It kind of hit on me then that this was something special.
field innings last slick
The field is just too slick. They got through it, but really the last two innings it was too slick to play on.
guys means played
That probably means more to me than anything, that these guys who played for me wanted to come back and be a part of the program.
kept seeing
I didn't know any of this was going to happen. But I kept seeing some of these (former players) come in - this is special.
defense facets great might offense previous seen
I might have seen Opelika with a better offense and a better defense in previous years. But I've never seen them with a combination of the two. They're doing great in all facets of the game.
best felt five half schedule six teams
That's the way our schedule works. We felt like we'd play five of the six best teams on our schedule the first half of the season.
ask bases coming five hitters loaded number six
We had the bases loaded with no outs and the number four, five and six hitters coming up to the plate. What more could you ask for? We didn't get it done.