WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The room had not been used in years, when it was a workshop room for the now-defunct woodshop class at Hialeah High School in Hialeah, Fla. At first viewing, Gio Gonzalez will admit it was not what he was expecting. But Juan Garcia -- the head coach of the Hialeah baseball team -- had a vision of what the room could become.
So, they got to work this past winter to transform that empty, abandoned room into a facility for the Hialeah Thoroughbreds, the high school team where Gonzalez won a state championship in 2001-02.