Spring training doesn't just offer a renewal of hope for fans alone. This feel good story comes from the Cardinals camp in Florida (via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch): Road Back Leads To Jupiter
Tattered, emotionally worn and derailed by anxiety attacks and injury, Bill Pulsipher made a surprise visit several years ago to the New York Mets' spring training facility to ask for a job - on the grounds crew.
Once among the Mets' gleaming young pitchers, Pulsipher appeared to heads groundskeeper Tommy Bowes as a man "down and out," rudderless without baseball. So Bowes made him a deal.
There were outfields to mow, infields to rake, chores to do, but Pulsipher had to pledge to spend just as much time working out as well. Bowes offered the lefthanded pitcher a chance to rebuild his career.
Starting at ground level.
"He built the same mounds he once threw off of," Bowes said. "Instead of just coming out to work, I wanted him out and wanted him to be on the mower. Give him a chance to clear his head and be around ballfields again. See if he really did want to walk away from it."
Good luck to him.
Besides, you can never have enough left handed pitching.
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