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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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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Humility
God made baseball to teach us humility.
Before the Mountain Ducks game against the Moon City Mavericks, I threw batting practice to Tyler Jones. I would have told you that I was doing a decent job of throwing strikes. I would have told ...
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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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Thank You
A Year of Playing Catch officially publishes tomorrow and I am so excited I couldn’t sleep. Last night, I tossed and turned and eventually crawled out of bed around 5 AM, much to the delight of the dog and cat. I thought about the number 1 ...
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The Ozark Mountain Ducks Return
Late in May, I drove to the outdoor handball court at Fassnight Park. My intentions were to “play catch” against the wall for about 20 minutes, trying to stretch out my arm and back and hamstrings.
For the months of March, April, and ...
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