Safe at Home photo page

All photos courtesy of Melissa Dodge unless otherwise noted.

The cover shot of Safe at Home: A Season in the Valley

The cover shot of the updated, 2nd edition. By the way, it’s the same game, but that’s Zack Helgeson at bat in the original and Sanchez Gartman in the updated edition.

Chapter 1: Bruce Alger (center) shares a laugh with Charlie Dodge (left) and author Austin Gisriel (right)

Chp 2: Lucas Jones

Chp. 3: Mo Weber

Bonus photo: Mo was never afraid to laugh at himself.

Chp 6: Kay Helsley (standing) reviews potential “draft picks” with Carol Lanham (seated).

Chp. 7: From left to right, Mo Weber, John Combs, Lucas Jones, Corey Paluga, Daniel Rollins

Chp 8: Hail pours down on Rebel Park.

Chp 9: Steve Owens

Chp 10: Nate Furry

Bonus photo: Kevin Rufus

Chp 11: Zak Messer at bat.

Chp 12: Richie Gonzalez shares a book with a very interested party on Reading With the Rebels Day.

Chp 13: Mo gives a batting tip to Zack Helgeson.

Chp 14: Joe Hammond

Bonus photo: Bullpen sports Rally Rain Bonnets

Chp. 15: Jordan Pegram and family

Chp 15: Eric Alessio hands out bottled water and candy during the 4th of July parade.

Chp 16: Zack Helgeson

Chp. 17: Kenny Mickens

Chp 18: Eric Alessio (#19), Zack Helgeson, and the fog that descended on Rebel Park during the game against Luray July 22.

Chp 19: From left to right–Mo Weber, Steve Thiele, Bruce Alger (standing), Eric Alessio, Joe Hammond, Ryan Stauffer, Steve Owens, Kyle Hoffman, Mike Roth, and Dan Rollins

Chp 20: Lucas Jones. Too much rain, too many injuries.

Chp 20: Sanchez Gartman is safe at third . . . despite being tagged out.

Chp 21: Brian Burgess

Chp 21: New Market Rebel fans count down the outs in the bottom of the 9th in Game 3 of the playoffs at Luray.

Chp 22: Seth Kivett (left) and Kenny Mickens (right)

Chp 23: The 2009 New Market Rebels

Bonus photo: Another wonderful image captured by Melissa Dodge. “I’m rockin’ my Rebel jersey, too!” #42 Zack Helgeson, #28 Joe Hammond, #15 Seth Kivett

Chp 23: “Front Row” Fred Miller

Mo Weber’s retired, #1 jersey on the right-center field fence. Massanutten Mountain looms beyond the ballpark. (Photo by author.)

Appendix B

Player	Avg.	GP-GS	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	Slg. %	BB	HBP	SO	OB %	SB-Att.	PO	A	E	Fld. %

Mickens, Kenny	.365	35-32	126	25	46	15	1	1	22	.524	19	11	32	.484	1-4	43	1	1	.978
Gonzalez, Richard	.331	47-47	169	22	56	10	1	0	31	.402	27	5	18	.438	7-8	90	117	13	.941
Cooper, Will	.280	8-7	25	3	7	0	0	0	3	.280	3	3	4	.419	0-1	60	2	0	1.000
Messer, Zak	.278	43-41	169	25	47	12	2	4	21	.444	15	0	34	.332	8-11	76	100	19	.903
Kivett, Seth	.276	48-46	174	34	48	8	0	4	26	.391	39	1	43	.407	6-6	61	91	14	.916
Gartman, Sanchez	.263	45-41	152	30	40	7	1	8	32	.480	42	4	41	.432	4-4	87	7	4	.959
Carroll, George	.250	18-14	56	11	14	0	0	0	11	.375	8	2	19	.358	1-1	135	13	0	.943
Rufus, Kevin	.241	45-45	170	37	41	3	2	2	16	.318	26	18	52	.397	24-29	90	7	0	1.000
Pegram, Jordan	.241	13-13	54	9	13	2	2	1	8	.352	5	0	6	.305	2-2	15	39	9	.947
Pierce, Jacob	.234	14-14	47	7	11	0	0	0	4	.277	5	0	12	.308	0-0	98	9	3	.982
Owens, Steve	.222	6-4	18	0	4	0	0	0	0	.222	0	1	7	.263	0-0	10	4	2	.824
Langston, McKinnon	.221	31-29	113	7	25	0	0	0	9	.239	19	0	36	.328	1-2	3	4	3	.700
Helgeson, Zach	.193	48-45	166	23	32	8	0	5	28	.331	25	10	71	.332	2-3	353	16	3	.992
Townsend, Matt	.193	37-35	135	17	26	3	1	4	12	.319	15	4	48	.292	7-8	48	4	1	.981
Leskiew, Matt	.162	12-9	37	6	6	0	0	0	3	.189	6	1	13	.295	3-4	20	0	3	1.000
Bryant, Kenny	.148	13-5	27	1	4	0	0	0	0	.222	2	0	16	.207	2-2	23	0	0	1.000
Burnside, Matt	.125	6-2	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	.125	0	0	2	.125	0-0	0	2	0	.667
Furry, Nate	.094	10-9	32	3	3	0	0	0	4	.125	2	2	11	.189	0-0	73	10	1	.976
Zawadzki, Troy	.083	5-3	12	1	1	0	0	0	1	.083	0	1	5	,154	0-0	6	9	2	.882
Burgess, Brian	.000	1-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0	0	0	.000	0-0	6	7	2	.867

TOTAL	.251	49-49	1690	262	425	80	10	29	231	.362	258	63	470	.369	68-85	1308	514	88	.954