Frank Gonzales and Keith Aragon bonded through baseball [Video]

WINDSOR, Colo. — Northern Colorado Owlz manager Frank Gonzales and assistant coach Keith Aragon have been friends forever. “50 years,” Gonzales laughed.

The two went to La Junta High School together and were teammates on the Colorado State baseball team in the late 1980’s. Gonzales pitched while Aragon caught.

“I mean it’s pretty cool,” said Gonzales. “We lived together, we kinda shopped for apartments. I might have wanted to live in a higher end place some of the time but he was like ‘I don’t know if we can afford that.’ So I learned budgeting.”

They learned to support each other, like when Gonzales was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in 1989

“My career was coming to an end, but I was excited, it was like my brother getting drafted,” Aragon recounted. “I introduced him [Frank] to …