Southeast Missourian baseball player of the year: Oak Ridge senior Brett Thomas dominated the opposition on the mound
Sunday, July 10, 2011
There is a pine tree that stands in front of Brett Thomas' Oak Ridge home, not far from his idyllic tree-lined gravel driveway. He doesn't really see the beauty. He's the one who has to weed eat around the trees. l The pine tree was planted the same week he was born, and standing by it today he'll tell the story of how he saved it by tying a chain around it and using a truck to straighten it back out when a wind storm nearly turned it over. l Beside that tree, which now towers over the 6-foot-2 Thomas, is where his baseball career got off to an unassuming start.
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