“Why do you care so much about baseball? It’s just a game.”
I’ve been asked this question hundreds of times. Why
baseball? Why not politics or medicine or law? Why not cars or camping or
hunting? Why not something that actually makes a ...
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Donut Mecca
Donuts are my favorite food group, and Springfield is a great place to live if you love a good donut. One of the poems in This is My Springfield pays tribute to the abundance of places who fashion the heavenly pastries. Tyler Heckman, a ...
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Hitting with Jason Hart
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Jason Hart knows hitting.
“Whenever I visited a new stadium, I had a personal goal to
hit a home run that they talked about in that stadium,” Jason said.
When Jason played for then-Southwest Missouri ...
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Baseball Cinematic Universe
David knows all things movies and is writing a book about all things movies. Thanks to David, I have spent an inordinate amount of time this last week thinking about baseball movies and baseball scenes in movies. The following post is ...
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Infield
Whenever I kneel or squat or bend my right leg beyond what
is required for normal perambulation, my knee sounds like Rice Krispies or the
white noise pops of a vinyl record.
The sound effects are courtesy of an ACL-meniscus-cartilage ...
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