NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It was the Monday after the Country Music Association Awards last fall, and it felt as if the after-party had extended into the Vanderbilt baseball weight room.
"It was like a block party," Chris Ham, the program's strength and conditioning coach, said. "There were way too many people in here."
"Probably my fault," Cincinnati Reds catcher Curt Casali said with a chuckle. "I brought a bunch of people myself."
Like swallows returning to Capistrano, each offseason the Vandy Boys scattered throughout professional baseball flock back to campus. They rent homes. They buy homes.