Credit: WaPo
I was just forwarded this interesting WaPo piece on Delino DeShields. After falling off the face of the earth, he’s back in baseball as a hitting coach for the Billings Mavericks.
Things are bit different for Delino in Big Sky country:
“It ain’t the A-T-L, that’s for sure. Billings is all cowboy hats and wide-open spaces, ranchland and large wildlife. It’s the biggest city within a 350-mile radius, which says more about what’s within that radius than about Billings’s own size. And according to the 2000 U.S. Census, African Americans make up about one-half of 1 percent of the population — or precisely 494 folks from a total population of 89,847.
"I’ve seen a couple," DeShields says, laughing. "Let’s just say: I don’t think they were natives."
It’s a good piece. Check it out.