Standing in an aisle of the grandstands behind the home dugout, a young woman was crying as she watched the team on the field gather around for a picture shortly before the first pitch
A former player herself, she wasn’t sad about anything. Not exactly, anyway. She was one of dozens of alumni there for opening day, among hundreds more not present, who had helped build the metaphoric foundation for the very literal structure in which those tears were now silently flowing.
Thursday night, February 11th, 2016, marked the opening of Nusz Park, the new Mississippi State softball stadium.