The ballroom at the Drury Plaza Hotel was packed with more than 500 people, all there to honor one man.
A World Series hero, a handful of former Major League players, even more college baseball All-Americans spanning four decades had all been summoned back to the place where their careers began.
It was like walking into a time portal, transporting each person back to their favorite memory in the history of the Wichita State baseball program. A highlight film of WSU’s greatest moments streamed on the walls, not that the former players in the crowd had any problem vividly telling their own stories.