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Tyler Rockafellow on the mound during his pitching days for Dallas Baptist University. The Burnet High School graduate is now an attorney in Burnet. Contributed/Tyler Rockafellow -
Rankin Johnson, the grandson of Gen. Adam Johnson, pitched for Chicago in the upstart Federal League soon after his departure from the Boston Red Sox. Contributed/Baseball Reference
The poet Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote “In the spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.”
Tennyson died in 1892. Probably, he never heard of baseball.
Of course, lots of people in Burnet have heard of baseball, and probably, many of them are thinking about the game now – particularly as the Houston Astros are ready to defend their 2022 World Series title.
By the way,…