Russellville baseball team hopes to bring a SMSG win home to teammate battling cancer
Posted: July 13, 2011 Filed under: 2011 Show-Me STATE GAMES 2 Comments »Last November, a group of boys 10 and under from Russellville, Mo., formed a competitive baseball team to compete in Jefferson City’s competitive league. The team could not find quite enough players in Russellville so they sought out players from nearby town California, Mo., where they found Jordan Geiser.
After training in the gym for five months, the “Russellville Outlaws” began to play and ended their first season with a winning record of 26 to 10.
Jordan, the player recruited from nearby town to play for the Outlaws, turned out to be a valuable player and friend. Coach Mike Miller says Jordan is an aggressive base-runner who scores nearly every time he gets on base.
“He makes my job easy and he looks as if he is coached very well, but in reality, Jordan needed very little instruction,” said Miller of Jordan’s talent.
Jordan recently became sick and doctor’s discovered two baseball-size lumps in his chest that turned out to be a large, cancerous tumor pushing on his heart.
Jordan’s teammates on the “Russellville Outlaws” are headed to the Show-Me STATE GAMES to play July 22-24. Miller says the team members hope to win for Jordan, but, most importantly, they are hoping for a recovery for their friend.
Jordan, number 24, at bat
Jordan is indeed a great kid and suberb baseball player as well as basketball. Know the boys will play their hearts out for Jordan at the Show Me Games. Plan on being there I have a grandson that plays on the same team and he if friends of Jordan.
Jordan is indeed a great kid and suberb baseball player as well as basketball. Know the boys will play their hearts out for Jordan at the Show Me Games. Plan on being there I have a grandson that plays on the same team and he is friends of Jordan.