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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Swing Away
Swinging a new bat is a welcomed invitation into a world of possibility.
With no grip on it other than the silky-smooth maple from which it was crafted and with no pine tar or batting gloves nearby, I take a few gentle swings, feeling ...
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Storytime
Mrs. Rhodes taught fifth grade and had the highest of expectations for all of her students. One of her assignments included memorizing and reciting a poem. Which meant public speaking. As soon as she gave the assignment to my class, a ...
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Catching Hope – 2021
On January 4, 2018, I didn’t know what I was doing. On the date of my 21st wedding anniversary, my wife, Jamie, returned to school where she works as a teacher. I drove my daughters to their school and, during lunch, I planned to play catch ...
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The Catching Hope Tour
I recently received an unexpected and wonderful compliment on Twitter.
A couple weeks ago, I was a guest on Justin McGuire’s Baseball by the Book podcast.
The episode published on November 3, Election Day, a perfect day to talk about ...
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Championship Sunday
Tommy Lasorda, the brilliant former manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, once said, “The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is losing the World Series.”
In the summer of 1991, I played in my ...
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