On Day #8 of 2018, I played catch with Dad.
With only 8 catch-playing days remaining in 2018, I played catch with a father and son, both of whom were Royals fans.
“Nice hat,” they both said, commenting on my Royals stocking hat.
I first ...
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Day #356
Kirk grew up in KC, back when the Royals were notorious for racking up losses, and he would chase down autographs after games.
“My favorite players were Mike Sweeney, Alex Gordon, and a young Zack Greinke. His stuff was just filthy back ...
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Day #355
“You can do hard things.”
It’s the lesson Chris hoped his sons would learn as they hiked fourteeners and camped in the mountains of Colorado.
Chris is a Cardinals fan, an Ozzie fan, and wore a powder blue jacket for catch. But no ...
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Day #354
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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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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