Vance Albitz, a 24-year-old minor league shortstop in the St. Louis Cardinals’ organization, showed his support for American soldiers abroad by sending them baseball gloves and balls.
“I read where the soldiers over there get lonely and bored,” Albitz said to ESPN last week. Thinking of how he played with the Memphis Red-Birds last season, he said, ”I feel that way sometimes, you know? New town, new team all the time. And I’m just playing baseball. These guys are putting their lives on the line for us. I just thought somebody ought to thank them for it.”
The idea came to Albitz when he read an article in which a soldier was asked what he would most like to have sent to him and answered, “Two gloves and a ball."
