Tales of Ernie Clement: Dogpiles, fake IDs and how a free spirit found his way

Everyone was looking around for Ernie Clement. On the first day of 2014 fall workouts, the University of Virginia baseball team filed into the weight room, one by one. The workout was one of those ‘optional’ lifts that everyone knew was actually mandatory — everyone except for Clement.“The whole team was there,” Virginia infielder Daniel Pinero said. “And we were like ‘Where’s Ernie?’”Advertisement