The Baseball Experience |
Hello, my name is Dale 'Fojo' (short for Photojournalist) Scherfling. Welcome to The Baseball Experience!
I've followed baseball since 1948 (as a 12-year-old pitcher) to the present (as a 73-year-old pitcher in an Over 50 hardball league). In the years between I've been a career photojournalist, photographer and writer, in both the United States Navy as well as civilian life, working for newspapers, wire services and other publications.
Of all the baseball I covered - from little league to the majors - I like the minor leagues the best. Here is where the REAL game begins, though at this stage, it's sometimes more a jungle than a game. Professional baseball today - as always, I suspect - is a scramble upward, to the next level for the player. It's either up or out.
Minor league baseball is designed for prospects and for moving these prospects up the chain. How many prospects are there? Not that many. How many careers are there? Very few. Most players in professional baseball don't have careers - they have experiences. I once heard a California League manager say, "I have one prospect on my team, a 'maybe'or two and twenty two pieces of shit."
These pages are dedicated to all of these players - those with prospective careers, those with hopes and dreams of careers and those who have the experiences - long, short or otherwise.
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