Sonny Fulks is a graduate of Ohio State University where he pitched four varsity seasons for the Buckeyes from 1971 through 1974. He furthered his baseball experience as a minor league umpire for seven seasons, working for the Florida State League (A), the Southern League (AA), and the American Association (AAA). He has written for numerous websites, and for the past fourteen years has served as columnist and photo editor for The Gettysburg Magazine, published by the University of Nebraska Press, in Lincoln Nebraska. His interests include history, support for amateur baseball, the outdoors, and he has a music degree from Ohio State University.
The recent promotions of three recent Ohio State baseball players gives pause to the theory that talent doesn’t seek Big Ten baseball as a development path to the big leagues. I swore I wouldn’t go here. Said to myself that I would ignore those who have written over the past two years to criticize time