The success of the Plant High alumnus doesn’t surprise his youth baseball teammates.
Pete Alonso, holding plaque, is pictured in his early years with members of the Tampa Heat travel-ball team. From left, Matt Lipinczyk, Drew Sassone, Will Jennings, Alonso, Spencer Trayner and coach Mike Friedlein. [Courtesy of Will Jennings]
Spencer Trayner looked on from the parking lot as a young Pete Alonso, a teammate on the Salty Dogs, climbed out of his car and tumbled face-first to the asphalt at Twin Lakes Park in Sarasota.