12/11/2009

Flashback Friday is about family

The Jim Eisenreich Story from a 1987 PC column.
The story of Jim Eisenreich is a good one: A hot prospect has his rookie year derailed by a misdiagnosis. Toss in a classy act (being sarcastic here) by Boston Red Sox fans, a couple years out of professional baseball, and a comeback that has a very happy ending and you have a biography worthy of a Hollywood movie.

Eisenreich's story has a local tie to it as well. Charlie Eisenreich, Jim's younger brother, played for the Appleton Foxes in 1987 and Gary Shriver's Foxes Notes column from the June 21, 1987 edition of the Post-Crescent covers the details. It is also this week's Friday Flashback.
Plus, later in the column, discover a lost member of the Appleton Baseball Honor Roll.

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