Championship Sunday in the Grip'N'Rip Baseball League is only four days away. I’m trying to find which meteorologist I need to bribe to change Sunday’s forecast, moving the 60s and rain to another day and letting us take the field with 70s ...
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GRBL Semi-Final Game #2
After the first game, I grabbed a cheeseburger, fries, and Dr Pepper and tried to find a warm seat to watch the second semi-final game featuring the Springfield Metropolitans and the Branson Showmen. By game’s end, the temperature was 44 ...
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GRBL Semi-Finals #1
On Sunday, October 18, the day after my younger daughter turned 16, the two remaining National League teams competed for a place in the 2020 MLB World Series. The Los Angeles Dodgers faced the Atlanta Braves at Globe Life Field in ...
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Baseball is Hard
“Baseball is hard. Don’t forget that. It really is a hard game.”
Rance has tried to encourage me with those words throughout this sprint of a season, after another groundout or strikeout.
I visited with BVG after one such groundout. ...
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Friends
The year of playing catch wasn’t a year of collecting catch partners like baseball cards.
I got Jim “The Rookie” Morris and Mary Moore and Bill Virdon!
It was a year of making new friends through a play-filled sharing of ...
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