Cycling’s road forward. When Armstrong came out of retirement in 2008 to race again, he convinced his sponsors to help establish an under-23 developmental team that would compete under Livestrong, the banner of his anti-cancer foundation.
The U-23 circuit serves as cycling’s feeder system, giving young riders a place to learn the trade and grow comfortable with the craziness inside a peloton, the large, unwieldy pack of riders in a race. In spring 2010, a 19-year-old Dombrowski was invited to race with the Livestrong team. One in 8 Million - New York Characters in Sound and Images. ZooBurst. One in a Thousand Interactive eBook. OTL: The Long, Strange Trip of Dock Ellis - MLB. In the mid-1990s, Pierce was invited to work at an old-timers' baseball fantasy camp in Reno, Nev.
Ellis was there. So was Blue, who did end up starting against Ellis in the 1971 All-Star Game. And Bobby Tolan, another former big leaguer, who had played with Ellis and Pierce on a youth squad in Los Angeles. Every day, the routine was the same: Under the blue desert sky, the old ballplayers would meet with the campers, run drills, play games. Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek - Multimedia Feature.