Ball Park Quiet Tonight

The ten years that I have done PA for Post 58 there have been many changes that have occurred.  Lance Peck was the coach my first year and it had been decided that Legion baseball needed to be politically correct and they started rotating high school fields to play the games.  The first year I started at Nash Central.  Year two called Rocky Mount Academy  home.

Year three a young wipper snapper named Matt Bryan coached two years and by 2009 lead Post 58 to their first ever Legion  State Championship State Tournament.  Post 58 has one state Championship ship to it credit but the title was won when the teams play series against each other not eight teams in a double elimination style.

2010 Hank Jones was now in charge and he returned Coleman Pitt back to the state Tournament.  2013 Rocky Mount High School no longer uses Gryphon Stadium as they have on site field now so Post 58 leases the stadium and changes the name to Legion Field.  2015 is a dry year as Post 58  failed to field a team.  2016 back at Legion field.

The Last several years teams through out eastern North Carolina have plenty of trouble keeping teams in tact all season and many games are lost by teams failing to have enough players to travel.  Oddly enough after sitting out a year Post 58 has a full compliment of players again but still others have trouble getting their teams to scheduled games.

It happened again tonight as Durham called and since this was an extra game that would not count as a conference game they reneged and said they didn't have enough players to make the trip.  Rain outs cancellations and Post 58 has a real nice ball club.  Here we have reached almost a week left in June and Post 58 has played only nine games.

Four of their final five games left on the schedule are on the road at Apex, Durham, Garner and Cary. Next Tuesday they play their final regular season home game hosting Garner.  Standing at 3-0 there is a good chance in a three out of five first round series they should get two home games. They will need to win three of the five games left on the schedule.  Anything less and they might not have the home field advantage.

These 11 years I have witnessed some great players who have played for the teams P 58 have played. Many who have been on P58's side have played college and some even more.  There have been rain delays, rainouts, cancellations and at least two out of ever three games have been P 58 wins.  I hope this year's team still has many playoff wins ahead.  The pressbox has been a good place to be all these years. I hope there are more playoff wins left for this year's team than games that they have played.