The Tribune

By BRENT STUBBS

Senior Sports Reporter

bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

FOR the second consecutive year, Albert Cartwright will be participating in the Minor League All-Star Classic.

The two-day festivities got started last night at the Peoples Natural Gas Field in Curve, Philadelphia, with the Eastern and Western Division squaring off in the Ghostman Games & Hitting Challenge. The All-Star Classic is set to be played tonight.

Cartwright, 26, will be one of four players from the Reading Fightin Phils baseball team who will be a part of the Eastern Division roster for the game.

The second baseman joins fellow infielder Carlos Alonso, starting pitcher Hoby Milner and relief pitcher Colton Murray from the Philadelphia Phillies Major League organisation.

Selected by the fans for the second year, Cartwright is hitting .260 with 14 extra-base hits and a team-leading 15 stolen bases in 70 games this season with the Fightin Phils. He had a 10-game hitting streak, going 6-for-7 to 6-for-18 where he hit .362 (17-for-47) with eight runs scored.

Cartwright, who has played professional baseball since 2007 when he was selected by the Houston Astros in the 36th round out of Polk Community College before he was acquired by the Phillies from the Astros in 2011, is one of four Bahamians who are currently playing in the Minor League of baseball.

The others are Antoan Richardson, Jervis ‘Champ’ Stuart and Dario Saunders.

Richardson, 30, is an outfielder/pitcher in the New York Yankees organisation. He played one year with the Atlanta Braves in the major league.

Stuart, another outfielder at age 21, is playing for the Savannah Sand Gnats in the New York Mets organisation, while Saunders, also a 21-year-old outfielder, is with the Cincinnati Reds organisation in the Dominican Summer League.

During the 2014 Major League draft, three more players got their names called and will begin their progression through the minor ranks.

Anfernee Seymour went with the 197th pick in the seventh round by the Miami Marlins, Todd Isaccs Jr followed with the 654th pick in the 22nd round by the Toronto Bluejays and Byron Murray got selected with the 748th pick in the 25th round by the San Francisco Giants.

Seymour and Isaacs Jr were room-mates at American Heritage High School in Plantation, Florida, while Murray came out of Trinity Christian Academy in Lake Worth, Florida.