Dakota Albritton is from tiny Ellaville, Ga. His Schley County High School baseball team played for a state championship at Savannah’s Historic Grayson Stadium in 2019.

Albritton thought he had hung up his glove for good after the tournament.

“I went to work after high school,” Albritton said. “I was pouring concrete. I was a pipe fitter. I worked in a paper mill. I did a little bit of everything.”

Albritton was pushing a wheelbarrow full of concrete four years ago when his mother called and said she had signed him up for a baseball tryout.

“What the heck did you do that for?” he asked her. “I haven’t played ball in two years.”

The tryout was back at Grayson Stadium, home of the Savannah Bananas. Once again, Albritton and his parents made the 3 1/2-hour drive west to the ballpark to g

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