 and I tried out for the varsity baseball team, as my school didn't have a JV team. I'd always been either a pitcher or first baseman in the league, but they had a senior first baseman. I knew him, he was a good man, so I figured to make that team, I would have to try out for the outfield. Other than one ball, ground ball, getting past me, I thought I did okay. At the last day of tryouts, the coach, Pop Cuesta, said,