{"id":34384,"date":"2010-08-27T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=34384"},"modified":"2024-07-03T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T19:16:08","slug":"draft-day-in-new-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/08\/27\/draft-day-in-new-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"Draft Day in New Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eric Leimbach '83 (left) and Tom Campbell '82 of the Lewiston Lemmings share a laugh. That's the league trophy in front of them.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Dan Crocker (Colby '82), Nick Kent '82 and Dave Beaulieu focus on the auction action.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Commissioner for Life Greg Pizzo '82 (right) listens to Tom Campbell '82 (center) of the Lewiston Lemmings as Eric Leimbach '83 looks on.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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Brothers John and Neil Jamieson '82 of the Jamieson Whiskeys team confer during the draft.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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A close-up of projected player auction values during the player draft.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t

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The Southern Maine Seacoast Rotisserie League, founded by Greg Pizzo \u201982 in the mid-1980s, kicked off its 2010 baseball season with its player draft at Bates in New Commons.<\/p>\n

Batesies dot the league\u2019s ownership ranks. Besides Pizzo (league commissioner for life), owner of perennial contenders Pizzo Pies, you have Tom Campbell \u201982 and Eric Leimbach \u201983 of the Lewiston Lemmings, a nod to the alternative Bates mascot of the \u201970s and early \u201980s.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe draft lasts about five hours,\u201d explains Campbell. \u201cIt used to take 10 hours when beers were allowed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brothers John and Neil Jamieson \u201982 own the Jamieson Whiskeys, and Nick Kent \u201982 runs the Kent Surgeon Generals. Other alums involved through the years have been Clark Spencer \u201982 (Spencer\u2019s Fencers) and Dave Linehan \u201982.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe draft lasts about five hours,\u201d explains Campbell. \u201cIt used to take 10 hours when beers were allowed.\u201d Suds or not, the bidding is high serious: One member flew in from Virginia for this year\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n

The green cups in the photos indicate who\u2019s still in the bidding for a player \u2014 a tipped-over cup means you\u2019re out of that auction. \u201cThe cups live in my basement and have been in use for 15 years,\u201d says Campbell.<\/p>\n

Before the Internet, Pizzo would print out updated sets of statistics from his home computer and leave them on his deck in Cape Elizabeth for everyone to pick up. Now, the game\u2019s all online \u2014 as is most of trash-talking between players \u2014 which means draft day is a great time for face-to-face camaraderie.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like the combination of statistics, baseball, and friendships,\u201d says Campbell, a longtime math teacher at Waynflete School in Portland. \u2014 HJB<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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