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Message: <blockquote data-quote="richtrickey" data-source="post: 1974206" data-attributes="member: 14384">36. Overtime Sports"Where sporting goods go into extra innings!" Shout the tv and radio spots for this new shop, located in what was just recently the burned out shell of an old five and dime discount store. The owner, "Big Jim" Saunders, opened the store after retiring from a short and rather unremarkable career playing right field for the local major league baseball franchise. Big Jim, a giant of a man at 6'5" and nearly 300 pounds, sells used and hard to find sporting gear at discount prices, and cheerfully sponsors a handful of local little league baseball and girls softball teams, portraits of which are proudly framed behind the cash register.Just about any gear you can imagine can be found here, in good condition despite being used, but Big Jim makes most of his profit these days selling to the local extreme sports enthusiasts. Paintballers, skateboarders, BMX bicyclists, rock climbers and others can be found here throughout the day, haggling over a price or relating their latest tale of gore and glory. The used equipment is offered at Big Jim's usual fair prices, but new stuff, from all the latest trendy manufacturers, carries a slightly higher price tag since Jim's the only guy in the neighborhood to carry it.Aside from the merchandise, Jim also keeps a batting cage area toward the back of the store, as well as a "fast pitch" game, and is in the process of adding a rock climbing wall, as well as a full sized skateboarding/BMX half-pipe in the lot out back.Jim's crew is made up mostly of teenagers and twenty somethings with a taste for extreme sports, so they're usually excellent sources of information on the local hot spots and events. Jim himself isn't much on the extreme end of things, preferring to spend his free time sponsoring and coaching the local kids in baseball and softball, but his short career in the major leagues has given him some useful contacts among the movers and shakers in the city.</blockquote>

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