Jake Gross acknowledges he was a little more pumped up than normal to play this past Friday night as his Auburn Orange all-stars baseball team competed in its Ozone State
For the 12-year-old baseball all-star, it was his first opportunity to play at a facility that his father, former Northview High, Auburn University and Major League Baseball standout Gabe Gross played at while growing up in Dothan.
Though he has visited Dothan on numerous occasions to see his grandparents and Gabe’s parents, Lee and Betty Gross, it was the first time for Jake to see some of the facilities his dad played on while growing up. “He told me he played his first football game – a middle school game – over there,” Jake said, motioning toward Northcutt Field. “He told me some other stories about him playing around here.
“I was very fortunate to play at Auburn – football and baseball memories – professional baseball in the minor leagues, big leagues and a World Series , but I don’t know if my time in Dothan isn’t just as memorable – whether it was Northview-Dothan, Northview-Enterprise and some of those big games I played in football, basketball and baseball and definitely here at Westgate with city championships,” Gross said. “I got all the way to the finals and it still stings .
“I never experienced that much nerves before in my life and it was really from the moment I went to bed the night before,” Gross said. “It was coming all day long in school. I couldn’t concentrate as I couldn’t think of anything but that football game. I remember we scored as I threw a touchdown pass to Brad Abercrombie, but we got beat either 14-8 or 14-6.
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