We don’t play enough—and our lives pay for it.
For one year, I played catch, crossing 10 states and 12,000 miles on a quest both quixotic and inspiring.
In A Year of Playing Catch, “ride along” as a passenger in the Bryan ...
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National Play Catch Week
National Play Catch Week started on Father’s Day.
In a 1997 Toyota Camry that has a couple of dents, a car that was built in the year Jamie and I married, a car that still doesn’t have a name, Jamie and I drove more than 1,500 miles ...
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The Short Version
In 2018, I played catch every single day. It was awesome.
Toward the end of Spring Training 2018, Wilson sent me a new glove. A 12.75” blonde, H-webbed beauty. That new glove was an incredible encouragement and affirmation of the journey ...
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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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If You Give a Kid a New Baseball Glove
If you give a kid a new baseball glove,
he’s going to ask for a baseball.
When you give him the baseball,
he’ll probably ask you, “Wanna play catch?”
To properly play catch, he will want you
to take him to a baseball ...
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A Play-Created Masterpiece
A simple definition of play is “meaningful, but not necessary.”
My first thoughts of play jump to the world of baseball, of throwing balls and swinging bats and running after pop flies and grass-stained pants and sweat streaming off the ...
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