'Dancing Bobby' big part of Bees baseball
"He's part of Bees baseball for sure," Bees general manager Chuck Brockett said. "Bobby's kind of an icon in Burlington. Everybody knows him because he's an entertainer over there by the first base dugout. He just loves baseball."
"Baseball is my hobby," Bobby said. Besides his get-down outings at Community Field, he also attends high school softball games, basketball at Southeastern Community College and participates in the Burlington High School homecoming parade, hoofing the entire route.
He said it doesn't wear him out.
"That gets me excited. It pumps me up," he said, laughing with unbridled joy.
Almost everything makes Bobby laugh.
His congenital learning disability doesn't stop him from leading a full life. He volunteers at Partners, an association for people with disabilites funded by United Way.
"Bobby is a very humble and caring person who tries hard to please others," said Kathleen Hemmesch, executive director of Burlington/West
Column: Without Pep, Barca can't become immortal
By JOHN LEICESTERAP Sports Columnist
Led by Pep Guardiola and inspired by Lionel Messi, this Barcelona team could have gone down in football history as the best club team ever, unequivocally and definitively surpassing Real Madrid's stars from the 1950s, Johan Cruyff's Ajax, AC Milan coached by Arrigo Sacchi, Bayern Munich's triple European champions in the 1970s and perhaps a few others.
But now we might never know. Or, at least, we may never be 100 percent sure. By deserting Barcelona, Guardiola is robbing himself and his players of a chance for football immortality.
Barcelona's most successful manager leaves an artwork more than half complete, already beautiful, a masterpiece in the making even, but not all that it could have been had Guardiola persevered for a few more seasons and finished the job.
History's judgment will be this: Guardiola produced one of football's best teams, but perhaps not its greatest, because he did not stick around quite long enough to end that debate once and for all.
