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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Ethan C. Bryan
In September of 2020, I sat in my back corner office of Mudhouse Coffee at the same table where I wrote A Year of Playing Catch. I scrolled through pictures and stories about Ethan C. Bryan, a 16-year-old student at West County High School ...
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Opening Day Contest
I have been to Opening Day at Kauffman Stadium on several occasions. I’ve been with my dad and I’ve been with friends. I’ve tailgated and entered the stadium as soon as the gates opened and chased down batting practice home runs.
Most ...
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Sioux City, Iowa
September 2021
Ethan,
I first read “A Year of Playing Catch” back in February and it so inspired me.
We have a few areas of common ground — playing catch with our fathers, a love of baseball, employment in a church setting, ...
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Banana Ball…Maybe
On May 6, 2022, the Savannah Bananas will be traveling to Kansas City to play the Monarchs in an exhibition game of Banana Ball, a creative re-imagining of the game I have loved the entirety of my life.** The game will be a battle of ...
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GRBL Championship Sunday 2021
The Moon City Mavericks are the 2021 champions of The Grip’N’Rip Baseball League.
Which means the Ozark Mountain Ducks are not back-to-back champions.
Which means this is a story about my team losing the last game of the ...
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