In honor of all the teams and fans coming to Omaha for the NCAA Men's College World Series, I'm sharing my baseball. I got it signed before the 1993 CWS (I worked at the old Rosenblatt Stadium for this and the following series). It is the entire '93 Arizona State team, who I was rooting for that year. Unfortunately, they were the first to go "2 and 'cue" (0-2 in a double elimination format and head home to the barbecue).
This year, more than half the teams are from the SEC (Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, and Ole Miss; one of the two brackets is nothing but SEC, with Ole Miss being the outsider in the other bracket). Rounding out the rest of the eight teams are North Carolina and newcomers Troy and West Virginia.
If you're one of the fans making your way to town, you definitely want to go to Fan Fest on Thursday. Visit the zoo on one of the days your team isn't playing. Check out the nearby Old Market and eat from Zesto's. Those are just some of the things to do here.
