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Talk of Arizona

Fall 2014

Jaime said the Fall League has not lost its charm for him. He recalled a recent game with a group of seniors came from a retirement home came for a game. “I wasn’t trying to eavesdrop,’’ he said. “But I could hear them talking about the 1956 World Series. Stuff I have seen only in black and white. They were there. It was better than any book.”

And Jaime likes seeing kids seeking autographs, trying to land the signature of the next superstar before anyone else has heard of him.

“They’re trying to catch lightning in a bottle.”