Monday, December 15, 2014

Oliver Marmol Finds Calling Bringing Game To Foreign Land

The biggest game of Oliver Marmol's season came not in front of the 3,000 folks packed into Tri-City's Joseph L. Bruno Stadium for the short-season Class A New York-Penn League title game in early September, but rather on an unkempt lot in the high-poverty Nicaraguan town of Cristo Rey just a little more than two months later. Gone were the bright lights and the pursuit of a trophy, all that glitz exchanged for the acrid odor of surrounding sewage and a gesture that signified hope.

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