Is the Slack & Davis mailroom a stepping stone to a baseball career?

Zach Parker, son of Mona Fults of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, worked in our firm’s mailroom during 2001. He signed a contract with the Colorado Rockies baseball team that same year.

By 2002, the hard-throwing, 6’2” left-hander was a rising star in the Rockies organization after going 16-7 with a Class A team in Asheville, N.C. Parker began the next season at Visalia, Calif., and made the Class A California League All-Star team. But his 2003 season ended in July after 16 starts when he underwent arthroscopic surgery to remove bone chips from his left elbow. He recovered from that setback during 2004 and has come on strong in 2005.

Parker finished the season with 12 victories and helped lead the Tulsa Drillers (AA farm team for the Rockies) to the Texas playoffs.

Ty Davis, son of Slack & Davis founder Mike Davis, just started his third year playing baseball for Vanderbilt University. For two months this past summer, the 6’5” right-hander had the opportunity to pitch for the Peninsula Oilers, a team in the Alaska Baseball League. This six-team league consists of elite college players from across the country.

Ty led the league in wins and number of innings pitched. He ranked second in strikeouts—a record that earned him a place on the league’s all-star team and recognition by Baseball America as the “Number 5 professional prospect” from the Alaska league.

A former all-state pitcher at Austin’s Westlake High School, Ty expects to be one of the weekend starters at Vanderbilt this year.