Volunteers ‘the No. 1 employee’ of this week’s CIAA basketball tournaments in Baltimore

On any other Wednesday, Fred Taylor would probably be working in an office in Baltimore as managing director of an information technology company. But last Wednesday, the 62-year-old West Baltimore native and Baltimore Polytechnic Institute graduate was folding a few hundred green Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association T-shirts and hooded sweatshirts for distribution to volunteers such as himself who will help the league run the men’s and women’s basketball tournaments that begin this week in the city.