Sunday, July 10, 2011

A switch-pitcher and other hurlers dominate the Double Duty Classic

by Steve Bogira African-American kids tend to think baseball is boring, Blake Hickman says: "They like basketball because you can dunk, and football because you can make big hits on people." Hickman, a six-foot-four, 210-pound African-American catcher for Simeon Career Academy, is hardly a boring player; he's smashed many a fastball and has nailed countless runners in his first three years at Simeon with his lightning throws.?

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Source: http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/double-duty-baseball-classic/Content?oid=4192472

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