Chapter 18
Nick
As difficult as it was to keep losing night after night in Fresno, I had to admit it was pretty amazing how excited the people of Fresno were about my arrival. Every other team I’d been on had at least one other big-name player, and in Austin there had been two. But here in Fresno, they handed out t-shirts with my likeness on them at the games, the area radio hosts called me the Barnestormer, and they even organized a parade to celebrate the team’s first victory once I arrived.
My signing bonus was pretty sweet too, but the best thing that happened was when I was named to the All-Star team for the West. I made the first-team as a forward, and I was really looking forward to the game. This year it would be held in Las Vegas, and it was highly debated as to whether it was
