OMAHA, Neb. — In the giddiness of watching one of their own make it to the Men’s College World Series, a group of Enterprise State Community College baseball alums started sending a flurry of texts to coach Samuel “Bubba” Frichter with the same request.
“Can we take the Boll Weevil bus to Omaha?”
The answer, sadly, was no, because the 16-hour-plus trip from Enterprise, Alabama, to Omaha, Nebraska, would violate safety regulations. So, five former Enterprise State Boll Weevil ballplayers made the long trek by car just to see their old teammate Jabe Boroff play for Troy University in the school’s first MCWS…