Every summer, all across the country, summer baseball teams give college players a chance to develop their skills and have fun doing so. Boone will no longer be left out of the fun thanks to its new collegiate-level wooden-bat summer baseball team, the Boone Bigfoots.
The idea for the team came from owner Bob Wilson, who saw an opportunity to bring summer baseball to Boone last summer amid shutdowns and quarantines. Wilson also wants to help App State by putting all profit toward the Appalachian State Athletic Scholarship Fund after spring sports were cut short.
“People get into summer baseball for different reasons,” head coach Ryan Smoot said.