Baseball

(Chris Lee/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/TNS via Getty Images) Baseball is weird. Devout fans of the game claim animals can affect outcomes of games and, in some cases, seasons (goats and black cats, especially). At one point or another, ...
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September is Alopecia Awareness Month. I was diagnosed with alopecia at the age of 6 in the same year the Kansas City Royals went to the World Series for the first time. My parents attended the first World Series game in KC; I watched it on ...
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I learned of Larry Hasenfus while researching stories for America at the Seams. At the age of 58, Larry went back to college to earn his degree. While in college, Larry decided to try out for the baseball team. A commuter, he left home in ...
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Baseball is all about making adjustments. I was at CY Sports taking swings, trying to get my eyes and body used to hitting pitches in the mid-80s. Dad was feeding balls into the two-wheeled pitching machine which didn’t throw anything ...
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Photo credit to Mike Hudgens Photography On August 18, 2004, two days after my 30th birthday and two months before the birth of my second daughter, I had surgery on my right knee. The original injury occurred a month prior ...
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