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WASHINGTON —
The baseball coach with a shock of gray hair and Atlanta Braves' cap calls his players around after an early morning practice for one last pep talk: hit hard, field those balls and, most of all, win.
They all laugh, join in a team hand-stack, cheer and soon go off to their day jobs — as members of the U.S. Congress.
WASHINGTON — In the year since House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and others were shot at a congressional baseball practice, mass shootings have occurred at a Texas church, a Las Vegas music festival and high schools in Parkland, Florida, and Santa Fe, Texas.
Ohio Rep. Brad Wenstrup, a doctor who helped save Scalise's life last June, has watched those attacks unfold with the acute sensitivity of a mass shooting survivor. Each shooting is jarring, says Wenstrup — he calls the Parkland shooting in particular sickening — but his views on gun control have not changed.
WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Roger Williams (R-Austin), manager of the Republican Congressional Baseball Team, will coach the players during the annual game at National's Park this evening – exactly one year after a gunman opened fire at the GOP baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia.
The University of Texas is headed to the College World Series in Omaha, but the school's baseball team will receive another honor Thursday in the nation's capital.
Congressman Roger Williams (R-Austin), will honor former University of Texas coach Augie Garrido at Thursday's 2018 bipartisan Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park, according to a news release from Williams.
Garrido died on March 15. He was 79.
WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Roger Williams (R-Austin), manager of the Republican Congressional Baseball Team, will honor former University of Texas Coach Augie Garrido at tomorrow's 2018 game.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama remembers how the gunman had described him: "63, white hair."
On a bright morning last June, a man who was distraught over President Trump's election opened fire on the Republican congressional baseball team here at a public park complex. Four people were shot before the Capitol and Alexandria police took him down.
Executives of Golden State Foods along with state, county and city officials broke ground on its 200,000 square foot facility at HighPoint Business Park today.
"The quality of HighPoint Business Park's tenants have put Burleson on the map," said Burleson's Mayor, pro tem Dan McClendon, during the groundbreaking ceremony. "Now, Golden State Foods, who services more than 125,000 restaurants and stores on five continents from its 50 locations, has put us on the globe."
SHERMAN, TX - From Baker field to Nationals Park, Austin College Baseball coach Mike Ramsey is taking his talents to the nation's capital to coach in this year's Congressional Baseball Game.
"I've always joked that this is my one way to get on to a major league ballpark, is to coach in a game like this," Austin College Baseball Coach Mike Ramsey said."
Ramsey shares TCU ties with Texas Congressman Roger Williams, who invited Ramsey to be an assistant for the Republican team. Ramsey then spent a few days in May at the Nationals Youth Academy for practice.