Ex-Governor Joe Kernan:Fields of Dreams

http://www.nextracks.blogspot.com/ Striking out in his bid for re-election, former Indiana Governor Joe Kernan was unemployed for the first time at age 60. He combining his lifelong passions for baseball and community affairs to get back into the game by taking over his hometown's struggling minor league baseball team.
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Nextracks's Mike Cerre caught up with his former Notre Dame classmate and a POW in Viet Nam making his transition from Indiana's Statehouse to the clubhouse of the South Bend SilverHawks, a farm club for MLB's Arizona Diamondbacks and the key to the city's downtown urban renewal plan.
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A former college baseball player, he's now discovering how concession sales and good weather are as important as hitting and pitching to be successful in professional baseball.

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