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One of the baseball highlights of my life – and I’m fortunate to have many baseball blessings every year – is the annual First Pitch Baseball Dinner at Wright State University.
It is a fund-raising event for the Wright State baseball team and it is put together by coach Rob Cooper – and it is first class in every sense of the words first and class. So is Cooper.
- Cincinnati Reds vice-president of scouting addresses the room at Wright State’s 2011 First Pitch Banquet.
- Reds vice-president of scouting Bill Bavasi mingles with Hall of Fame Baseball writer Hal McCoy (left).
- Wright State Head Baseball Coach Rob Cooper.
- Wright State Director of Athletics Bob Grant






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