Clinton LumberKings baseball crew basic supervisor Ted Tornow in his workplace at NelsonCorp Discipline in Clinton, IA.Jacob Pramuk | CNBCCLINTON,
Clinton LumberKings baseball crew basic supervisor Ted Tornow in his workplace at NelsonCorp Discipline in Clinton, IA.
Jacob Pramuk | CNBC
CLINTON, Iowa — Ted Tornow’s workplace showcases a life in baseball. Workforce pictures line what he jokes is the “wall of disgrace,” tracing the Clinton LumberKings basic manger’s 37 years working within the minor leagues from Tennessee to Alabama, to Mississippi and Montana and now jap Iowa.
He factors to a picture of Bo Jackson, the multi-sport celebrity who took baseball’s Memphis Chicks by storm when Tornow labored for the crew in 1986. He notes a photograph of Ryne Sandberg and recollects how the Chicago Cubs legend “packed” Clinton’s stadium when he visited as supervisor of the Peoria Chiefs.
Now, a risk to the LumberKings and two different Iowa skilled groups has introduced Tornow into the orbit of one other drive: Bernie Sanders. The Vermont senator and presidential candidate, formed at a younger age by the Nationwide League’s Dodgers leaving his native Brooklyn for Los Angeles, has helped to steer resistance to a Main League Baseball proposal that would minimize 42 minor league golf equipment. Burlington, Vt. — the place Sanders was mayor within the 1980s — additionally might lose a crew.
“Bernie’s the right instance,” Tornow stated Monday throughout an animated elucidation about how Individuals wish to shield their traditions and historical past like baseball groups that…