NY Times: Lessons From Big Leagues Guide a Bassmaster Rookie (RR)

“I’m lost, just lost,” the angler, Billy Brewer, a rookie on the Bassmasters Tour, said Wednesday, a day before the start of the three-day competition on the 71,535-acre lake about 130 miles east of Atlanta. He did not have much more luck Thursday, standing in 78th place.

“This sport is unforgiving, sometimes unfair, but you keep throwing, you compete.”

Brewer had the same philosophy about his previous athletic career, as a major league baseball player. He pitched in 203 games in relief over seven seasons (1993-1999) and toiled in the minors for another 201 games. An unforgiving situation on the lake can be matched with some of his experiences as a member of the bullpen for the Royals, Yankees, Athletics and Phillies and 12 minor league teams.
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There was the time in 1996, after being traded to the Dodgers from the Royals, that he threw 30 scoreless innings in a row at Class AAA but was left in the minors.

“We were on a conference call with L.A.’s general manager, me and my agent, trying to find out why I couldn’t join the big league team,” Brewer said. “And the G.M. said: ‘We’re being told Billy isn’t throwing that well. We’re not arguing about it — he’s staying where he is.’
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After 4 of 11 events, he is 33rd among 108 anglers and second in the rookie of the year standings among 11 anglers.

Billy Brewer’s B-R page