Randy Cross
ENG 102
31 October 2011
He Should Have been Great Alexandria, Alabama is the place I call home. Alexandria high school was a small 4A school about 20 minutes from Gadsden. Sports basically owned the town. I started playing sports when I was six years old with a group of about 15 boys, and we played together until my senior year of high school. At Alexandria the coaches wanted the “athletes” to play all three sports: football, baseball, and basketball because we were a small school and needed all the help we could get in every sport. Growing up we had an outfielder by the name of Josh Ray, who could catch any ball hit into the outfield. He made it look so easy and we all knew that he was going to be great