Over the next few days the eyes of the baseball world will be on St. Louis, MO, site of Major League Baseball's midsummer night's classic. MLB's All-Star game is Tuesday but for a Louisville area baseball coach his night on the national stage comes Monday. Bellarmine University baseball coach Deron Spink will be lobbing pitches to Phillies slugger Ryan Howard in the Home Run Derby.
Spink and Howard go back to when Howard just graduated high school. That summer Spink coached the St. Louis native and the two remain close to this day. "We've remained friends over the years, and I've probably thrown (Howard) about a thousand pitches during that time," Spink said.
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