When Bill Pintard got a call in 2017 for a temporary fill-in on his Santa Barbara Foresters baseball squad, he didn’t know that player would turn into a team MVP.
“The next day, Luke Ritter got in his car and drove halfway across the country and drove straight from Wichita to Santa Barbara,” Pintard said.
When Ritter heard about the Foresters and saw where they played, he said, “Why not? I get to go and play in California all summer?”
Luke Ritter, a Wichita State junior from Kansas City, signed a 10-day contract with the Foresters and flopped on his first appearance.