Grackles
They got Anton Nutbeam back. He looked like he never left — 24.6 points.
The ledger, after four seasons: 2,987 yards, fourteen scores. His best was 1,376. This is not that, yet.
New Antwerp, Wisconsin is where he is from. He is twenty-six. Around the building he is the first man in the building most mornings. The route here: cut twice before his twenty-fourth birthday. Before any of it he taught himself to weld from library books.
Grackles, 4-3, and seven weeks gone. Wendell Ankleton is in year three of it. He is out of contract after this.
One more thing: he calls his grandmother before every game and after every loss.