When I last played competitive baseball, as the score-keeping-foul-ball-chasing-outfielder-warm-upping benchwarmer on the junior varsity team at Kickapoo High School in the palindromic summer of 1991, I hated wearing a cup. It was bulky and ...
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Update
Summer has been full of life and adventure and the typical craziness summers are known for. Ice cream and pineapple whip and movies and car washes and so many lawn mowings.
One daughter went to Costa Rica on a school trip. She loved ...
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MacDougall
The instinct to pick up a stick and swing at something surely originated when we were a culture of hunters and gatherers, protecting ourselves from faster predators, feasting on the slower ones. The best stick swingers probably worked ...
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Of Pitching and Poetry
Quiz in the Hall / Quiz Warms Up, by Jim McTaggart
I love watching how people throw a baseball.
When I go to games, I study pitchers warming-up in the outfield and in the bullpen. In between innings, I find my eyes drawn to the ...
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Deadwood
Picture from HBO.com
My friend Perry sent me a link to Mark Singer’s interview with David Milch in The New Yorker. I know of David Milch because Dad is a fan of westerns and Milch created the HBO series Deadwood.
The interview ...
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