JUPITER, Fla. • This is the story about the man who won the lottery and then won the lottery again.
See, thousands of boys dream of playing for the St. Louis Cardinals. Bryan Eversgerd was a farmboy from Carlyle, Ill., and a southpaw for Kaskaskia College. Went to a tryout. Worked his way up through the system. And became a Cardinal, pitching in the 1990s.
Thousands of men dream of coaching for the St. Louis Cardinals. Bryan Eversgerd planted seeds all over the farm system, coaching in the minors for 15 years. So many buses.