In the summer of 1998, current University of Arkansas at Little Rock baseball Coach Chris Curry was a junior-college catcher from Conway with an invite to the Cape Cod Baseball League — the prestigious amateur wood-bat summer league in the southeastern corner of Massachusetts that’s sprouted thousands of future major-leaguers since 1963.
With the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox, Curry played for a first-year manager in Scott Pickler and against future pros such as Barry Zito, Ben Sheets and Garrett Atkins. He caught a no-hitter from future Mississippi State teammate Hank Thoms, and as an East Division All-Star traveled to Boston’s Fen-way Park, where he signed his name inside the famed Green Monster.