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Excerpt from an interview with Ace Gervin, reprinted with permission from the Tifton Free Press, March 17, 2038.

"Did I think it was all going to turn out this way? No. And anybody who tells you that they knew it would is lying. That first year, when people started paying us to play ball while everyone else was working their tails off to build a society out of the Outposts, we all looked at each other like we were kids that had found the keys to the candy store. No, they didn't pay us much. No, the fields weren't much more than dirt infields and a few temporary bleachers. No, not many people came out to watch in the beginning. But I have to tell you, I wouldn't change a day of it. And now, well... let's put it this way: when I was eight years old, my parents brought me and my two sisters into the kitchen and told us we were moving to another planet. Nothing could ever change my life quite the same way as crossing over to the Outposts did, but playing in the Bay League and paving the way for the Outpost League comes in a very close second."