Aug 26, 2019
Larry Colton always wanted to be a baseball player. He gave it
a good shot.
He holds the UC Berkley single game strikeout record of 19
batters, was a pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies (he only
pitched 2 innings), was the designated hitter for the Portland
Mavericks (independent league A ball) for a few weeks and finally
left baseball behind to become a writer - and a very good
one.
He is the author of five books and one of them, Counting Coup,
about a girls’ basketball team in Montana, was nominated for a
Pulitzer Prize.
I met him at a baseball coaches clinic in Gresham Oregon and
he agreed to come on the show because our local senior league team
is named after the Portland Mavericks. This one is just for
fun.