<\/a>JDHS third baseman Reed Meier tags out Ketchikan runner Bubba Williams during Saturday baseball action at Adair Kennedy Field. (Klas Stolpe \/ Juneau Empire)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Remembering “an amazing guy, person, friend”<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t The JDHS Crimson Bears also honored Juneau baseball fixture Frank Phillip Barthel (1935-2022) who passed last year. Barthel moved to Juneau in 1980 and was part of the JDHS coaching staff since the 1990s.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Bentz noted when the new field is finished the JDHS dugout will be named after Barthel.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t “Frank was an amazing guy, person, friend,” Bentz said. “We don’t just do that for anyone. He was just a big part of this program. I’m just very fortunate to have gotten to know him. He was in it for the kids, that’s it, one hundred percent for the kids.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Former JDHS coach Jim Ayers said, “Frank made up his mind when he came to the field he was going to check in on every player. It wasn’t about everybody, it was about each player. And he wanted to know how they were doing and what they needed. Like a good coach or a good parent would do he wanted to know how they were, their spiritual nature. Was their life going alright.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t Also attending was 2010 JDHS graduate Dylan Baker, the 2010 Alaska Gatorade Player of the Year who has played 11 seasons of minor league baseball for major league franchises Cleveland, Milwaukee and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t “He was literally the happiest guy and always brought up our spirits any time we were down,” Baker said. “He knew when something was bugging somebody or the whole team. He had a million sayings and he always had your back no matter what… he was just always there for all of us. My buddy Miles Bedford told me, ‘Frank was the heart and soul of JDHS baseball.’ He was pretty amazing.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t See more photos from Saturday’s game below. <\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JDHS sandlot boys top Ketchikan <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":99143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[196,240],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-99142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports","tag-baseball","tag-high-school-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99142"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=99142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}