NORTHWOODS LEAGUE ANNOUNCES

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date: February 6, 2009

Former Mallard Comadena Signs with Astros

(MADISON, WI) Outfielder Jordan Comadena, who played for the Madison Mallards from 2005 to 2007 & went undrafted out of Purdue University last spring, was recently signed by the Houston Astros as a free agent heading into the ’09 season thanks to—all kidding aside—his performance during last year’s third-annual Mallards/MLB Alumni Game that saw Comadena blast two run-scoring doubles to pace Maynard’s All-Stars.

The game, typically a laid-back affair pitting both young and old, famous and not, and big and small former collegiate athletes and Major League Hall of Famers, who on this day, came away impressed by one individual with a “funky” name in particular.

And no one came away from that game more impressed than former Houston Astros great Jimmy “The Toy Cannon” Wynn was. In fact, Wynn, who is listed as a Community Outreach Executive on the Astros official website, went back to Houston and recommended to General Manager Ed Wade that he sign Comadena. Perhaps Wynn saw a bit of himself in watching the also height-challenged but strong youngster play hard for each out—he too was signed as a free agent, in 1962.

Wynn played 11 seasons in Houston from 1963-73 and ranks among the top 10 in almost every significant Astros career hitting category.

Comadena owns Mallards team career batting records in runs scored (119) and walks (89), and single-season records in runs scored (54), walks (54), and at-bats (259). He also remains the only player in the franchise’s eight years to have played all 68 games when he reached that mark in 2006.