RAMON Aviles has been here. He has been there. The West Virginia Power manager made his Major League baseball debut 28 summers ago in a city that his players hope one day to call home.

It was a 1977 summer Sunday in Milwaukee. Boston Manager Don Zimmer, his Red Sox with a double-digit lead in the American League East, watched the Brewers bring in Bob McClure from the bullpen for a lefty-lefty matchup.

With two men on base, Zim called for buried backup infielder Aviles to pinch-hit for Bernie Carbo. "He told me, 'You're bunting, even with two strikes,' " Aviles recalled of that day at County ...

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