This is good

Mike Dupre' has this extensive piece on four Beloit Snapper players available at the Janesville Gazette website. The players are Joe Benson, Ozzie Lewis, Steve Singleton, and Greg Yersich and the topics hit on a lot of things about which fans are typically curious.

Like...Living conditions:

The guys were just settling into their three-bedroom apartment, where Singleton and Benson share the master bedroom.

Their furniture consisted of a rented projection-screen TV, rented couch, a couple of rented beds and two beds and a chair that Benson and Yersich, who live in Illinois, brought from home.

Money:

While signing bonuses can be hefty, minor-league money is not good.

Benson was the highest drafted of the four, selected in the second round of the 2006 draft. He signed with the Twins for a $575,000 bonus. Baseball America ranks him as the Twins’ second best overall prospect.

Benson said he hasn’t touched the money, which his father is investing for him.

But now he’s playing for the same money as his teammates: $1,300 a month during the season; $25-per-day meal money on the road, $10 a day for food if the Snappers are commuting to a nearby out-of-town series.

Daily schedule:

When the Snappers play home games at 6:30 p.m., the players typically get to Pohlman Field at Telfer Park between 1 and 2 p.m.

A 2 p.m. game means getting to the park at 11:30 a.m. unless it was a day like Sunday, when the players weighed in and worked on fundamentals. The team’s 0-3 start probably was a factor in the players being required to be at the park by 9:30 a.m. for on-field drills.

There are also bits in there about drug testing, free time, and family. But, you'll have to click on the link to find out about those.

UPDATE: Forgot to mention. There is one slight error in the story. The writer uses the Madison Mallards as a comparison to the Snappers level of baseball, but identifies the Mallards as being in the Northwest League instead of the Northwoods League.