Alma Dey is a big hit at the ballpark

"It’s the most requested dish.”

Rising from her kitchen table to stir the five pounds of red and white beans simmering in her mother in-law’s treasured pot, Alma Dey is talking about her famous ham and beans, which have been on the stove-top burner long before the sun had risen and hours preceding the first pitch in Saturday’s opener of the Sedalia Travelers/Jimmy Glenn Tournament.

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