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We have now reached that magical stage late in a WPK season where we step into the WPK time machine to find out what current players in the league will have relatives who are also professional baseball players and might someday also rise to the level of the W.P. Kinsella League.
(Cue Doctor Who theme music.....)
We step out of our time machine in the year 2010 to find a young man named Malik Lowe, who just happens to be the grandson of Francis Estrada, who in the year 1966 played leftfield for the Charlotte Sting. Estrada, in 1966, is not yet a father, but two years later he will be the proud papa of a baby girl and 23 years later that daughter will have a son of her own (on September 14th, 1991.) That son will named Malik and when he is 18 years old he will be available in the new player draft for the WPK as a secondbaseman who is known as a speedster. (Unlike Gramps, who wasn't all that fast.) Will Malik be good enough to join his grandfather in the rarefied air of the major leagues? That is a story we will let time unfold.
Getting back into our time machine, we head backwards towards 1966 again but we stop just short, in the Spring of 1967, where we find 18-year old Curtis Horah nervously awaiting the WPK first-year player draft. Curtis is the young cousin of current WPK starting pitcher Dan Simmons. Young Mr. Horah is a centerfielder and is known as a defensive wizard, but only time will tell if he has enough else in his baseball bag of tricks to make the bigs. But, in this case, we won't have to wait too terribly long to find out.
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