Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch catches up with red-hot prospect Adron Chambers. Chambers is so red hot that even a professional curmudgeon like Joe Strauss is on board the Adron train. Goold covered Adron’s history and many other topics in the Q&A, including how he got discovered:
Back in 2007, Chambers paid $100 to buy a bus ticket from his home in Pensacola, Fla., to a tryout he heard about in Memphis with the Cardinals. He got the call 24 hours before he arrived — after a 23-hour bus trip that snaked its way north from the panhandle through Louisiana and Mississippi and into Memphis. When the Greyhound pulled up near the ballpark, Chamber said he barely had enough time to throw on some cleats before the workout started.
(Hit the link for the whole Q&A…)
So, Chambers got the word about the Cardinals tryout in Memphis and within an hour he was on a 23-hour bus trip. The time between when he heard about the tryout before getting on the bus and getting off the bus and the tryout in Memphis was only 1 hour. That is absolutely remarkable.
We looked in depth at Adron’s career here earlier this winter with video evidence of Chambers in the cage. Chambers is a player that I have been high on for a while and his performance has only improved as has his standing as he has impressed the Cardinals brass and everyone around the game.
Original Story:
http://www.futureredbirds.net/2011/03...
