Dreamfield was originally non-fiction. Over the years, I had collected about fifteen stories of the intersection of baseball and life and had a few leads on new stories. Brian’s story was going to be one of the featured stories. It’s one of ...
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Catch 365
In 2018, Ethan played catch every day with a partner. You can find the book he wrote about it here.
Day #353
In 2016, on Opening Day, I participated in the Relay the Way event the Royals hosted. A game of catch almost ten miles long, from Union Station past the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum all the way to the mound at Kauffman Stadium, Relay the ...
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Day #352
Goodnight Moon was the first book I “read.” I probably had it memorized and just parroted it back to Mom and Dad. Starting in second grade, right after my family moved to Springfield, I bought Pete Rose’s Winning Baseball and read it from ...
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Day #351
The Bryan Family Millennium Falcon parked next to Greg’s Serenity and there was great rejoicing in the collision of the sci-fi universes. The vehicles faced south and overlooked the yellowed grass outfield of the unnamed and mostly unused ...
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Day #350
One year ago, I wrote this post — Why Everyone Should Play Catch in 2018.
According to blog statistics, 15 people read it, which accounts for 25% of all of my readers last December. I'm probably related to the majority of those readers. I ...
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