The all-star lineup at the A&A All the Way Foundation Charity Softball Game, loaded with both former UTEP stars and El Pasoans who hit the big time, speaks to the growing talent in the Sun City.
A decade and a half ago, when Aaron and Alvin Jones were becoming varsity athletes at Burges, El Paso wasn’t where it is now in that respect, but it did produce an NFL quarterback in Burges’ John Skelton, who played with the Arizona Cardinals. That was about the only local NFLer Aaron Jones got to see first hand and he remembers what that meant.
That begins to speak to why he and his twin Alvin love coming back to their hometown to stage what is now an annual event. Thursday night was the third A&A all-star softball game and there will be more.
“Giving back to the community, being back here for the youth – if you can see it, you can attain it, you can touch it,” Aaron said 90 minutes before he took the field for the game that has been staged since 2022. “I did have that with John Skelton from Burges, I could see it, feel it, touch it. That was my way of seeing it.