All that really needs to be said is that the quest continues.
Immediately after striking out (swinging, at least) two more times — surely I’m the league leader in one of the few categories I don’t want to be the leader — I had thoughts ...
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Family
The Quest For a Batting Average, Part One
I don’t know if it is smart to write this series of my third season in the Grip’N’Rip Baseball League. It might serve as “advance scouting” for the other teams and pitchers.
Ha.
As if they need much advance scouting when it comes to ...
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Dad’s Glove
Dad bought his glove years before I took my first breath. He bought it so he could play on a beer-league slow-pitch softball team.
“I was transferred to Cape Girardeau, Missouri in May, 1969, where Charmin Paper Products was opening a ...
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Going Home
Going home is the whole point of baseball.
Home is the place from which you start, where all the action occurs. Staring down the pitcher. Taking deep breaths. Trying to do the nigh impossible task of squaring up a ball with a round ...
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Alopecia Awareness Month
September is Alopecia Awareness Month. Below is a part of my alopecia story, as told in A Year of Playing Catch.
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After living in Grand Junction, Colorado, for one year, just thirty miles from the Utah border with views of ...
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