COLUMBIA, Mo. — Tim Jamieson calls himself a fighter. It’s why, on a sunny Tuesday afternoon, the Missouri baseball coach sits in a dugout at Taylor Stadium watching batting practice two days after his program’s unlikely first Big 12 tournament championship.Freshmen Jake Ivory and Landon Lucansky crack balls into the outfield more than halfway through the two-hour practice. Jamieson’s expression doesn’t change. He gazes through his thick sunglasses with little emotion, Bad Company’s “Feel Like Making Love” blaring over loudspeakers above. He’s content with a chance to return to an NCAA regional for the first time since 2009. “It’s a unique way how we got here,” Jamieson says later. “That makes it that much more special.”It took a squad that adopted the 18-year veteran’s steady personality to reach this point. For Jamieson, the Big 12 tournament had become a lesson in how painful close calls can be. The Tigers were within one strike of winning the event in 2004 and 2011 – league officials waited to pass out championship hats and T-shirts near their dugout both times – only to see leads disappear. On Sunday, though, the fighter was rewarded in the same place that produced so many sour memories… Read full this story
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