When Kevin Kopps’ wonderfully miraculous, sublime and otherworldly Arkansas baseball season finally ended, he looked like a mere human.
This is not a bad thing.
Granted, with all he’d done for the program, Kopps had no business seeing his last pitch at Baum-Walker Stadium sent so unceremoniously soaring out of the ballpark as it was. But there’s a good reason when he had to leave the field a few seconds later, nearly 12,000 Arkansas baseball fans rose to their feet and gave him an ovation that thundered across the surrounding Boston Mountains.
They knew how special the season they had just witnessed was.