David Matoma is chasing his baseball dreams further than any pro player in America.
On a Friday at noon in Southwest Florida, temperatures at LECOM Park have already touched 90 degrees. The spring home of MLB’s Pittsburgh Pirates doubles as a seasonal home base for the club’s Class-A Bradenton Marauders’ affiliate in the Florida State League. This park, 50 miles south of Tampa, first swung open its gates in 1923. Some of baseball’s greatest took their first professional steps on this very same diamond that Matoma works from.
