With another trip around the sun nearly complete, it is time for one of our favorite traditions here at WholeHogSports.com: to share with you our favorite stories of the year.
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Below are some of my favorite stories to write this year, listed in chronological order.
A few days before Portland came to town for a nonconference baseball series at Baum-Walker Stadium, my former professor Larry Foley reached out to tell me about another of his former students, former Razorback baseball player Carl Stall, whose son was a starting infielder at Portland.