CLEBURNE - On opening night Friday at the Depot at Cleburne, a pretty little park just off Highway 67, it looked for the most part like any other independent minor league baseball game. Fans tangled up in a three-legged race, kids sliding on grass berms, players holding tight to dreams.
This was different, though: a 53-year-old making an improbable, kinda-sorta comeback.
And not just any 53-year-old, either.
The designated hitter for the Cleburne Railroaders got only two lines in the game notes, same as everyone. But instead of the typically modest highlights from careers, his started like this:
One of six members of the 500-homer, 3,000-hit club .