Former Cardinals reliever Steve Kline, the pitching coach for the Richmond Flying Squirrels of the Eastern League, has been waiting out the start of the baseball season at his farm in Winfield, Pa., near his alma mater of Bucknell University and the Amish country. He called the stoppage in baseball “the longest rain delay I’ve ever experienced.”
An employee now of the San Francisco Giants, Kline has most of his family nearby. His mother and father and brothers all have houses just down the road.
“We all get along,” said Kline. “We’re kind of like the Beverly Hillbillies — without the money.