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03/24/2004 8:04 PM ET
Notes: Bucky having a blast
Jacobsen building a cult following at Spring Training
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| Bucky Jacobsen has developed a cult-like following at Spring Training. (Harry How/AP)
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TUCSON, Ariz. -- The first big-league camp of Bucky Jacobsen's career has lasted longer than he expected, been more noticeable than anyone could have predicted, and made a certain mom in Hermiston, Ore., extremely happy.
"I was talking to her (DeAnne Mulmberg) the other day and she is happy that I am still in the big-league camp and playing for the Mariners and all that," Jacobsen said. "But she is more proud that the kid she raised turned out to be a good kid."
That kid is 6-feet-4 and 220 pounds, sports a Jay Buhner haircut, has a red mustache and goatee and is a virtual cult hero in Peoria, Ariz., where fans sitting near the visiting dugout chant his first name every chance they get.
"It's cool," he said of the attention. "I don't know how it has caught on as quickly as it has."
Jacobsen, 28, caught manager Bob Melvin's eye five years ago during the Arizona Fall League, when both were in the Brewers' organization.
They met again in Peoria a month ago when camp opened, about five months after the Mariners signed Jacobsen as a minor league free agent and invited him to Spring Training as a non-roster player.
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