Robby Rowland makes the most of the opportunity

Robby Rowland plays for the Bay Area Hoosiers but is also quite the pitcher. He was recently featured in an ESPN article for his baseball exploits:

Second time's a charm for Rowland
Ronnie Flores
ESPNRISE.com
August 10, 2009

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Each year, Area Code offers more than 220 talented baseball players the opportunity to be evaluated by major league scouts.

The scouts who choose the final rosters for the eight Area Code teams evaluated more than 1,800 players. The Chicago White Sox, for example, saw 497 try out.

"What one group of eyes sees, is not what another sees," said one American League Area Scout. "That's what makes this industry so fun. There are many roads traveled to Long Beach."

Robby Rowland, a 6-foot-5, 205-pound right-handed pitcher from Cloverdale (Calif.), attended the Milwaukee Brewers tryout but did not get "the call" to inform him he made the team. But he did receive a call from Colorado Rockies area scout Gary Wilson who said that the Oakland Athletics team needed another arm. Rowland gladly jumped on board with the team representing the Southeastern states...

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