Playing for Peanuts
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- May
- 10
An interesting baseball documentary is airing tomorrow on SportsNet NY. Playing for Peanuts follows the independent league South Georgia Peanuts through the weird world of minor league baseball. I got a sneak preview of the pilot and was very entertained. I only meant to watch the first few minutes but ended up sitting through the whole thing. Independent league ball is a unique life. These guys are a thousand miles from home, going everywhere by bus, getting paid diddley. Met fans should be especially interested, because the Peanuts’ manager is none other than Wally Backman. Backman, the former Met fan favorite, managed the Arizona Diamondbacks for four days before details about a potentially criminal past cost him his job. Like the players, he’s looking for a second chance in South Georgia.
Playing for Peanuts airs in several parts, the first of which is tomorrow at 6 p.m. on SNY (home of the Mets). You can watch a commercial for it here.
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Josh Thomson has done some of everything since joining The Journal News in
March 2003. He began working for the Gannett weeklies during the winter of
2002 as a freelance writer. He joined the daily staff soon after and has
since covered various high school and pro sports. Away from sportswriting,
Josh lives in Westchester and spends his free time either with his
fiancee, Sarah, or expertly managing his various championship-winning
fantasy sports teams. He's visited 21 major-league baseball stadiums and
insists that Fenway Park and Wrigley Field are the best by far. Josh
graduated from Carmel High School in 1998, then went to Boston University,
where, in 2002, he received a degree in communications with a minor in
history. 
Jake Thomases has covered baseball, hockey, girls basketball, and girls soccer for the Journal News since arriving in 2003. He previously interned at The Poughkeepsie Journal while attending Vassar College. He is socking money away under his mattress to buy the Knicks, at which time he will trade Jerome James to Cleveland for a ham sandwich.
Congratulations to Valhalla graduate and former Viking John Fitzgerald, I look foward to seeing you fine movie.
Dave Greiner