What do the following all have in common?
Vice President of the United States.
What do they have in common? They’re all wannabes, phantoms, mirages. They may seem impressive, they may look real for a while, but they’re not.
And yet, even though the stories of the Spring Training hero who fades back into oblivion are legion, sometimes, just sometimes, a great Spring Training is the difference between the Majors and the obscurity of AAA.