Josh Holliday and his roommate bought a couch from the thrift store and an inflatable chair from who knows where.
They had a TV, too. No stand; it sat on the floor. No cable either.
But the roomies playing their first full seasons of minor-league baseball back in 2000 found they didn’t need much more. Even though they were in Hagerstown, Maryland, a quaint but quiet industrial town hundreds of miles from their homes, they never wanted for something to do.
“We would talk a lot of baseball,” said Holliday, now the baseball coach at Oklahoma State.