SPORTS ILLUSTRATED & DREW ORTIZ, SALT LAKE CITY & MEDICINE HAT IV / On the ground with the worst tea
WITH today’s entry, the Salt Lake City Trappers’ bus heads to Medicine Hat in July 1988. The Trappers’ were the toast of the sports world the previous summer with 29 consecutive wins. The Blue Jays’ Pioneer League affiliate in The Hat were a miracle of another sort: the worst team in God’s creation.
To get up to speed on how I wound up on the Trappers bus, look at two previous entries this week: On Tuesday, I dropped No. 159: SPORTS ILLUSTRATED & DREW ORTIZ, SALT LAKE CITY & MEDICINE HAT II / After years of longing, the dream story was assigned. A single phone set the nightmare in motion.
Then yesterday it was No. 160: SPORTS ILLUSTRATED & DREW ORTIZ, SALT LAKE CITY & MEDICINE HAT III / With the boys asleep in the back seats, in the aisles and even up in the luggage racks, the bus rolls on.
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