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Former American Press sportswriter Carl Dubois blogs about the games people play, in and out of sports, and the people you meet between and outside the lines.

Carl is an award-winning reporter and columnist living in the Willamette Valley in northwest Oregon, near Portland. He is sports editor of the News-Register newspaper in McMinnville, Ore.

Oh, Henry

Posted June 16, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Filed Under People, Sports | 1 Comment

BATON ROUGE — I feel old.

Seth Henry, the son of my long-ago McNeese baseball teammate Lud Henry, signed a contract Tuesday with the Tampa Bay Rays organization.

It’s not like it was a huge surprise. Covering LSU and Tulane games the past few years, I saw the younger Henry play in the infield for Tulane. A few years ago, I bumped into his dad, who had moved on from coaching at Berwick High School to a series of administrative positions.

We both acknowledged looking older while insisting the other hadn’t changed a bit.

This sort of helps clinch it.

A Tulane news release says Seth Henry will leave Thursday for Fort Myers, Fla., to begin workouts with the Tampa Bay Rays organization.

Anyway, ballplayers come and go, and those of you who remember the 1980 McNeese baseball team, the last coached by Johnny Suydam, probably remember Lud Henry. Now his son is a signed, sealed and soon-to-be-delivered Major League Baseball prospect on his way to the minors.

Thought you might enjoy knowing.

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One Response to “Oh, Henry”

Paula Taylor on July 7th, 2009 4:17 pm

Carl,

I taught you Religion At SLHS and was so pleased to see your blog with the LCAP. I live in Mandeville now and check in every once and a while to see what’s going on.

Good job!

Paula Taylor

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