Chris Padget played seven pro seasons, four at AAA Rochester; Missed bigs

Part of it was burnout, Chris Padget admitted to his hometown Dothan Eagle in 2008. Part of it was he wanted to concentrate on his teaching. But, that spring, Padget formally left the game he'd played for nearly four decades , resigning as Dothan, Ala.'s Headland High School head baseball coach. "I started playing baseball when I was 6 years old and I have been in it for 39 years, so it is a tough thing to leave," Padget told The Eagle . "But it was like I was telling a friend of mine the other day, I would love to go watch a Masters (golf tournament) practice. I couldn’t because of baseball. Now some of those little things that you looked at doing, I can do." "It is a little bit of burn out," Padget continued , "but I just wanted to teach and do more in my teacher's job. I want to concentrate on that." Of those 39 years in baseball, seven of them came as a professional player, drafted in the seventh round of the 1984 draft by ...