Eureka's Ben Zobrist

[Da Coach]

Eureka's Ben Zobrist is having a great season for last season's AL champion Tampa Bay Rays. He hit his 16th homer last night, and he has 44 RBI, and he is leading the AL in slugging percentage at .642, and nobody else is even close..

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/stats/bycategory?cat=Batting&conference=AL&year=season_2009&qualified=1&sort=24

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/207026-where-did-ben-zobrist-come-from

http://www.morrisdailyherald.com/articles/2009/06/26/57789888/index.xml

One other bit of news from last night's game- Ben Zobrist's wife, Julianna, sang the National Anthem before the game--

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Julianna-Zobrist-s-sweet-song-helps-husband-brea?urn=mlb,173091

[Da Coach]

By the way, Julianna Zobrist is a professional singer. They reportedly met in college at Dallas Baptist University.--

http://blogs.tampabay.com/tbt/2009/05/julianna-zobrist.html

http://umpbump.com/press/2009/06/15/hot-baseball-wife-julianna-zobrist/

They have 1 child, a son--

http://celebrity-babies.com/2009/02/12/ben-and-julianna-zobrist-welcome-son-zion-benjamin/

http://www.facebook.com/people/Julianna-Zobrist/716050270

Her album, "The Tree"-

http://www.amazon.com/The-Tree/dp/B001RVCTG4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1244707145&sr=8-1

[tornado]

I'm sending my sons to that school

[thefish7]

I'm always rooting for Ben. I'm mostly sure I played some travel ball with him in middle school.

[Fyrebyrd]

He made the 2009 all star roster in St. Louis. Congrats to Ben

[tornado]

just got off the phone talking to some Eureka folks about their native son...
Ben had to do it with hard work and dedication, as he is probably in the minority any more in that he's not doing it the easy pharmaceutical way

[Chico]

The Arizona Republic in today's edition had a nice picture of Ben and an article saying he is the surprise player of the first half this MLB season.

[tornado]

another nice story about Ben Zobrist

http://www.pantagraph.com/sports/article_8b44d224-797b-11de-b7b4-001cc4c002e0.html