Randy and Weston Mazey remember trials and victories in baseball

Beaver Valley Baseball Team Salutes Injured Player

The Beaver Valley Red Baseball under-14 travel organization took on the Flood City Organization from Johnstown at the Pitt University Showcase tournament. This was just another summer baseball game for most players and coaches on these two teams, but it was much more than that for one player.

Flood City’s Weston Mazey made his return to the baseball field, which is something no one thought was possible, considering the health scare he went through. Mazey, the son of West Virginia University baseball coach Randy Mazey, was injured in a serious baseball collision, that left him with a fractured skull and a traumatic brain injury. At first, the doctors feared these injuries could be life-threatening.

However, Mazey and his family remained optimistic and determined to beat the negative prognosis. Mazey had to first work on standing up and walking again, then after that progressed well, he was able to slowly start training to return to the sport he loves. After months of hard work and dedication to getting better, Mazey made his return to the baseball field.

Baseball team salutes opponent’s amazing return

There is always something special and sentimental, evocative and nostalgic about father and son at a summer night’s baseball game. Randy Mazey has made a life in baseball as a career college coach, now at West Virginia. His son, Weston “Wammer” Mazey has been a son of the game all along.

The video is incredibly touching, but the moment is not as easy for dad. “If you saw the video of his first at-bat last week when the opposing team called time out and came to the home and shook his hand,” Randy. “The true sportsmanship and kindness. I was terribly nervous, as we’re standing here doing this interview one of the batters at the game got hit in the head with a pitch. That’s the big fear moving forward that he is going to take another shot in the head and we can go right back to square one.”

The one thing about being in West Virginia as the head coach of the Mountaineers is you have a platform. People will listen. People will help.

“Originally people approached me to help raise money for our family going through a tough time,” he said. “I said, ‘There is no way I can take money for this, but, I can take money to help other people,’ and that’s how it all started.”

Weston knows the magnitude of this fight. “It’s good, we don’t even know most of the people that give, and we don’t know any of the people we are giving to—so we are helping people that we don’t know,” he said.

They have raised almost $150,000 for “Team Wammer”.

“80% are people we don’t even know — it restores your faith in humanity a little bit — there are a lot of good people out there that are willing to help people in need. There are a lot more people in need so we’re not stopping where we’re at,” he said.

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