Most minor league baseball players are working to make it to the show(The Major Leagues) and Robert and Bobby Stutts, from the ole’ Greensborosports.com Luxury Box inside the Cricket K-Zone, have made it to the Jerri Rowe Show in today’s N&R and the season hasn’t even officially started yet….
from www.news-record.com and Click Here to read the entire Jerri Rowe baseball article:
There’s that chance for the dozen or so in the Cricket K-Zone to wear their new fluorescent green T-shirts. When an opposing player strikes out, they’ll hold up the letter “K†like a torch above the left field line and hang it on a hook.
That’s where Robert and Bobby Stutts will be. Father and son. Robert used to carry his son in a baby carrier — “like a pocketbook,†he says — to see the Bats play at War Memorial Stadium. Now, at Grasshopper games, Bobby takes a seat right beside him.
Bobby is 10, a fourth-grader at General Greene School of Science and Technology. He collects baseball cards of Grasshopper players.
After five seasons, he has 150. He keeps his favorite in a frame above his bed.
Meanwhile, his 55-year-old dad keeps encased in plastic the foul ball that bruised his right leg years ago. It came off the bat of a future superstar:Derek Jeter. In the summers of ’92 and ’93, Jeter played shortstop for the Hornets at War Memorial Stadium.
And he signed the ball.
Robert Stutts still talks about that — and his many other experiences at our city’s minor-league ball yards.
“For two or three hours,†Stutts says, “you lose yourself and become a kid again.â€