Friday, August 12 is Opening Night.
Season VII of the Grip’N’Rip Baseball League will start with the first pitch at 6:30 at US Baseball Park.
The game features a rematch of last year’s championship game, the Moon City Mavericks and ...
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Iron Boy Bigby
In June of 2014, Bigby, my godson, was born. He was born with a broken heart, technically diagnosed as Tetralogy of Fallot.
Three heart surgeries and four years later, Bigby and I met for catch in Davenport, Iowa, just outside the ...
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World Record, Part Two
It felt somewhat like an episode of The Amazing Race.
Jamie and I drove through hotter-than-hot-and-humid Iowa (heat index north of 100), trying to find our way from the Iowa side of the Missouri River to the Nebraska side. Numerous ...
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World Record
At 6 p.m. on Sunday, June 19, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, there will be an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the Largest Game of Playing Catch. In order to officially set the record, which is currently held by Willow Creek Community ...
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Callings
The calling of a musician is not acoustic perfection. The calling of a musician is to use their gifts and abilities to create melodies and harmonies, a soundtrack that will inspire, heal, and give strength to our cluttered hearts and ...
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