Sporting Life
David V. Henderson
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FRONT AND CENTER Kernels' Center Fielder Byron Buxton was drafted to the Twins' system straight out of high school.
Photos by David Henderson
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itness! Players with incredible names like Colton Cain, Damien Magnifico and Rock Shoulders (really!) as they fight for their baseball lives! (And to avoid an alternative career or another plan B they don’t even want to consider.) Here you can sit close enough to home plate to track the break on a breaking ball and check the MPH readings on a scout’s radar gun. And the tickets, food, drink and fuel for a day at the ballpark will set you back less than the cost of parking alone at a major league game. It’s only a short day-trip from Iowa City to Burlington, to Cedar Rapids, to Clinton, to Davenport—the eastern Iowa cities of the Midwest League, where the next generation of superstars, replacement-level utility infielders and back-of-the-rotation innings-eaters can be witnessed for just a few bucks. Midwest League baseball means cheap tickets, cheap beer, variable quality and raw
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