As we’re fond of warning one another here at Lookout Landing, there is no floor. But in the midst of a crucial age-25 season with the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts in 2016, Mitch Garver had a different problem: there was no ceiling.
Anyone in the Chattanooga area have a room for me? My roof collapsed and will need a place for the next 2 months pic.twitter.com/ewdkzRo5PW
— GarvSauce (@MitchGarver) July 16, 2016
Garver’s frightening experience wasn’t merely a catalyst for him to be a poster child for the importance of the solidarity and unionization efforts to create the now-extant Minor League Baseball Players Union.