Some pitchers might be tired at the end of the best baseball season in their school’s history, but Northeastern University’s Cooper McGrath came away feeling like he had a ton of life left in his right arm.
So the Hamilton native found a unique place to continue throwing ahead of this weekend’s Major League Baseball Draft.
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