Personalities, pictures and players

Baseball isn't really high on my list of sports to photograph. Rather boring. The pitcher throws 100 pitches, and the other team hits six of them. It's just not very exciting. And our job is to best video a sport in which most time spent waiting for something to happen. Lovely.

But in Lakeland, Florida, the York Revolution is in the middle of spring training. It's hot, the hours are very, very long for reporters and photographers, and it's baseball. Sounds like three strikes, eh?

Personalities like Matt Dryer, Keoni DeRenne, Jason Olsen and Travis Ezi make the sweltering days in Florida bearable. Stories like Dave Veres, above, the 41-year old with an aritificial hip, who's trying to climb back into the 'bigs' should inspire even the most anti-baseball cynic.

Now, I'm no baseball coach, player or even a fan, but players like Matt Esquivel, the big, smiling and speedy right fielder, and Mike Padgett, the handsome third baseman/left fielder, won't be around long. They're playing like they'll be signed somewhere else very soon. Some players, like those two, are just fun to watch but you'd better catch them quick.