Astros manager's sister inspires success
October 15, 2017
DEL CITY, Okla. (AP) — Angie Wages occasionally tells her students the story about her brother's first baseball team.
Their family had just moved from Iowa to Oklahoma, and her brother wanted to play for a certain third-grade team. He'd never played organized ball, but he'd grown up around the game.
The team didn't want him.
Wages remembers her brother being upset but undeterred. He convinced their dad to start a team.
Things turned out well for A.J. Hinch.
He went on to become the National Gatorade Player of the Year in 1992 while at Midwest City High, then played at Stanford, on the 1996 U.S...
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