Bryan Blanton (Catawba)
By Mike London
Salisbury Post
GASTONIA — It’s been 10 years since Bryan Blanton was a freshman World Series hero for Catawba College in 2015, and it’s been eight years since the New York Yankees made him a 21st-round draft pick.
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The right-hander’s 30th birthday is creeping closer — Dec. 19 – but he still has some bullets left. Skeptics would say that it’s time for him to settle down and start a family, but Blanton loves baseball enough to keep chasing his dream. He’ll pitch until his right arm tells him he can’t or until every team in professional baseball tells him they don’t need him.
“I live in Charlotte and play for the Gastonia Ghost Peppers,