By David Walker
Well, faithful followers and baseball fans, this certainly has been the most different weather season that I have experienced in my 50-plus years in the valley. The Baseball Gods, finally, melted the long-standing snow, only to bless us with an abundance of rain and wet fields. Multiple cancellations and rescheduling have plagued all the local baseball programs.
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