East Carolina's Bryce Harman smacks a home run (Aaron Fitt)

Fall Report: East Carolina

GREENVILLE, N.C. — On a dreary, rainy Sunday afternoon in November, while most of sports-loving America hunkered down at home watching NFL action on TV, some 500 souls showed up at Clark-LeClair Stadium to watch East Carolina’s fall world series finale. Almost anywhere else in college baseball, fall scrimmages are sparsely attended by a smattering of players’ relatives and girlfriends, but in Greenville, local ECU baseball diehards could be overheard breaking down roster battles, while students and families mixed in to form a bigger crowd than I’ve seen anywhere else this fall — including ACC and SEC venues.