Hubbard found home at first base
Ask any Diamond Jaxx teammate to point out their slugging first baseman and chances are the reply will include something about his large head.
And that's not intended to be an insult.
Marshall Hubbard's head literally is big - a size eight to be exact. And that's not including the ruffled mass of hair projecting from beneath his baseball cap. "I've had it shaved a couple times," Hubbard said Saturday. "But I figure I will probably start losing it soon; so I might as well grow it out while I can."
The article actually does get a bit deeper than hair and hat size for the Rattler first baseman from 2005.
Allen a Loons' pinch hitter on mic
As a young boy in Texas, Sid Allen pretended he was a TV broadcaster by reading the sports section of a newspaper aloud as he stood in front of a mirror.
Sports broadcasting, he felt, was his destiny.
And it was for a while.
Allen pursued a career as a broadcaster at Texas Tech University, briefly worked in television journalism, then eventually got involved with chamber of commerce work, putting his love of broadcasting on the backburner.
Today though, at the age of 55, and as the president and CEO of the Midland Area Chamber of Commerce, Allen has returned part-time to his first love — broadcasting.
Allen has filled in about a dozen times as a pinch-hitter for Great Lakes Loons' broadcasts on WYLZ 100.9 FM, and he's handled play-by-play for a couple of Loons' games on MCTV, Midland's cable station. His next TV game is scheduled for July 20.
This is the part I got a kick out of:
Allen got a taste of the life of a professional athlete on the road, and he admits it was challenging.
"We ended up leaving Dayton at 10:15 at night after a game, and drove all night to get to Grand Rapids, and we pulled in there at 4:30 in the morning," he said. Allen got to bed by about 5:30, but had to be at the ballpark by 3 to get prepared for that night's game.
Bed? He went to bed? Amateur. (Joke. Kidding.)
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