VALLEY / VENTURA COUNTY SPORTS : DIGEST : Kennedy, Fick Hoping to Rise in Fall League

By STEVE HENSON

Sept. 22, 1999 12 AM PT

From Staff Reports

Adam Kennedy and Robert Fick, former Cal State Northridge All-American baseball players, will play in the Arizona Fall League.

Kennedy, a second baseman batting .280 for the St. Louis Cardinals, will play for the Phoenix Desert Dogs. Kennedy, who spent most of the season in triple-A, might be asked to learn the outfield during the fall.

Fick, a catcher who has two home runs in 23 at-bats with the Detroit Tigers, will play for the Scottsdale Scorpions. Fick missed most of the season recovering from shoulder surgery.

Former Oak Park High coach Bill Springman is the bench coach for the Grand Canyon Rafters.

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Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

VALLEY / VENTURA COUNTY SPORTS : DIGEST : Kennedy, Fick Hoping to Rise in Fall League

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