Good article in this morning's Philadelphia Inquirer about Major League All Star Ryan Vogelsong. Octorara is mentioned in the second paragraph.
The article details Ryan's demotion and then outright release by the Phillies' farm system in 2010 and then his meteoric raise to the World Champion San Francisco Giant's pitching rotation at the start of the 2011 baseball season and then to the All Star game happening in Phoenix this evening.
Phoenix is the perfect city to showcase Vogelsong's out-of-the-dust return to baseball's pinnacle event.
You can read the entire article here. These paragraphs are worth capturing:
"I don't think I have to say anything," Vogelsong said, before saying something. "All you have to do is just listen to the stories. It's as simple as, 'Don't ever give up.' I came into this game and people told me, 'You don't stop playing until they kick you out and take the uniform from you.' And here I am."
Cole Hamels remembers Vogelsong from last spring because they were in the same throwing group and each had newborn sons. And Hamels remembers something else.
"Seeing him in spring training, it was like, 'This guy is good. Why hasn't he been in the big leagues?' " Hamels said. "Now he's actually proving to everybody [that] sometimes it just takes a little bit longer for everything to click. Things are clicking and now we have to play against him."
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