One of the five Georgia family members who died last weekend in a small plane crash in upstate New York hit a grand slam during the last baseball game he played in while visiting Cooperstown, his coach has revealed. 

Frank Tumminia Jr., identified by the Times Union newspaper as the coach of 12-year-old James "JR" VanEpps, wrote in a Facebook post that "his parents were too modest and humble to post about his athletic dominance so that is my job today as coach." 

"In his last game in Cooperstown NY, where youth athletes' dreams are made with storybook backgrounds and brackets full of several dozen teams… JR Van Epps crushed a GRAND SLAM," Tumminia said. 

"Today and for as long as I live I will teach the living testimony of JR. A piece of me left with him... I will remember him as the ultimate human," he added. 

FAMILY WHO DIED IN NEW YORK PLANE CRASH WAS FLYING THROUGH AREA OF ‘STORM ACTIVITY,’ NTSB REVEALS 

A National Transportation Safety Board spokesperson revealed to Fox News Digital on Tuesday that the plane that VanEpps was traveling in passed through an area of "storm activity" on Sunday afternoon before crashing. 

The spokesperson said flight tracking data for the single-engine Piper PA-46 aircraft "was lost about 12 minutes after departure" from Alfred S. Nader Regional Airport in Oneonta. 

"Preliminary information indicates that the plane was flying from Oneonta, New York to Charleston, West Virginia when it crashed under unknown circumstances," the NTSB spokesperson added. "Meteorological data shows storm activity along the flight path."  

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New York State Police on Monday identified the five victims in the crash as James VanEpps, Harrison VanEpps, 10, Ryan VanEpps, 42, Laura VanEpps, 43, and Roger Beggs, 76. 

"All of the passengers are family members from the state of Georgia and were in Cooperstown, NY for a baseball tournament," police said, noting that the plane went down in the town of Masonville as it was heading back to Atlanta, with a stopover in West Virginia. 

The NTSB said Tuesday that the debris path from the wreckage is about a mile long and that "all major portions of the plane" have been found except for the rudder.   

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who once wrote about what it feels like to work for faltering political candidates, says it feels "totally different now" to be working for President Biden.

An excerpt of her 2019 book went viral this week that was headlined, "What it's like working for a doomed presidential candidate." Jean-Pierre responded to the resurfaced writing this week by praising her embattled boss, who is facing calls to step down from some Democrats and liberal pundits after his alarming debate performance.

"I can tell you now feels totally different, working for the best President in modern history, whose agenda of fighting for the middle class and protecting freedoms and the rule of law unites the American people," Jean-Pierre told Fox News Digital."

In an excerpt of the book published in Salon, the then-MSNBC political analyst provided her account of working for both former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards and former Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose careers both eventually collapsed over sex scandals.

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"What makes a politician successful is also what can turn them — sometimes — into entitled narcissists who believe they can get away with things mere mortals cannot," Jean-Pierre wrote in ""Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America."

"There's nothing more dispiriting than working on a dying campaign. The atmosphere resembles one of those sad birth­day balloons with the air slowly seeping out as it deflates," she wrote.

Jean-Pierre's article resurfaced as she serves as chief spokesperson for a president whose fitness for office is under its most serious scrutiny yet. Biden's re-election chances are being questioned by a growing number of Democrats after his widely criticized performance at last Thursday’s presidential debate that raised more questions about his health and mental viability.

Jean-Pierre admitted Tuesday that Biden had a "bad night" but insisted that he "knows how to do the job" of president. 

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The current White House official’s article from four years ago described her time working on Edwards' presidential campaign during the 2008 presidential cycle. An afterthought in the race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Edwards dropped out after failing to win any primaries. He later admitted to an extramarital affair while his wife was sick with cancer and his political prospects never recovered.

"Did I or any of the other midlevel staffers have any idea that Edwards was conducting a torrid affair with the campaign vid­eographer, a woman named Rielle Hunter? Or that the couple would conceive a daughter and then try to get one of Edwards's closest campaign aides to claim that he, Andrew Young, was the father?" Jean-Pierre wrote.

Jean-Pierre said she didn’t know these details at the time, adding not working for Obama's campaign from the start instead was one of her greatest regrets. She later worked on his successful general election campaign.

Jean-Pierre also raved about Weiner's political abilities but noted that of his many gifts, "self-control" wasn't one of them. Weiner's sexting habits derailed his congressional career and 2013 New York City mayoral bid, and he eventually served prison time for transferring obscene material to a minor.

"So I end this cautionary tale on ‘flawed candidates’ with this warning: believe in the mission, not the messenger. You, the volunteer or staffer, should believe in the politician's mission, their goal of changing society, more than in the poli­tician him or herself," Jean-Pierre wrote.