Tom Nicklas traveled 2,300 miles and waited four years to becomeMount Carmel's baseball coach this season.
Nicklas played third base at Western Michigan from 1968 to 1972,then moved to the West Coast to teach and coach baseball and footballat a small Catholic school. Before he left, the baseball team hadgone from the bottom to the top of its conference.
When he came to Mount Carmel, he hoped to be a coach. But hisfour-year experience amounted to one game as a substitute coach in1983.
"I was here for four years, waiting and waiting," he said. "Itwas frustrating for me and the kids. You could see it in theireyes. They had the talent and they wanted …
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