Buckley: World Series time — a perfect chance for this Houston High product to reminisce
Matt Cain speaks to the media before the Memphis Sports Hall of Fame ceremony Oct. 21. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
Tim Buckley
Tim is a veteran sportswriter who graduated from CBHS in Memphis and the University of Missouri. He previously covered LSU sports in Baton Rouge, and the University of Louisiana football and basketball for The Daily Advertiser/USA TODAY Network in Lafayette, the NBA’s Utah Jazz for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, and West Texas State basketball for the Amarillo Globe News in Texas.
For 13 straight MLB seasons not long removed from Germantown’s Houston High, baseball was life for Matt Cain.
Amid it all, Cain — inducted last Tuesday night into the Memphis Sports Hall of Fame along with eight others — experienced something he never dared to imagine during his days as a Mustang:
Perfection.
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