So Waynesboro heads down to Abingdon tonight for its Group AA quarterfinal game. If you don’t know where Abingdon is at, think the farthest place you’d travel to watch a high school baseball game, then add another 30 miles. Yep, it’s that far.
Like the baseball-watching veterans they are, Frank and Mimi Bragg went to Amherst on Friday prepared.
They had two lawn chairs and a spot just off of the third-base side of the backstop. To make sure of it, they arrived in Lancer Country a hour before Waynesboro Region III championship game against Alleghany started.
Frank, a Korean War veteran is 77, his wife, Mimi, is 85 and “a little hard of hearing,“ Frank says. They’ve been fans of Waynesboro baseball for 30 years or so, they both guess. They just love baseball.
Toggling between the butt-numbing bleachers and standing against a fence, I watched Justin Verlander give up one hit and lose to Clarke County. I watched Jake Peeling wrap his dad in a hug after pitching a no-hitter.
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