"Richard "Rich" Godhard Becker" was a Major League Baseball (MLB) player between 1993–2000.

Born in Aurora, Illinois, Becker was selected in the third round of the 1990 Major League Baseball Draft out of West Aurora High School by the Minnesota Twins. In high school Becker, excelled at football and baseball. In football, he played quarterback and running back on offense and corner back on defense. However, he excelled on the baseball diamond and as a result had come to the attention of elite college baseball programs and scouts from MLB. Becker spent his first minor league season with the Elizabethton Twins. He played in 56 games, had 194 at-bats with 56 base hits, including six home runs for a .289 batting average. He played for the Kenosha Twins, Visalia Oaks and the Nashville Xpress teams before being called up to the Minnesota Twins in 1993.

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They're happy about (the BAL title), but we didn't make a big deal out of it. I met with everyone at the beginning of the year and said that we had the potential to have an impact in (the District One Class AA tournament), so we're looking forward to that.

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It's been our Achilles' heel all year, shooting. We play good defense. We held them to 32 points, but we didn't make enough shots.

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We get everyone back, except one senior.

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Virtually everybody in this community knows somebody who works at the Herald. If you can reach out and touch somebody personally, all of a sudden, it becomes your paper.

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