Baseball

“Why do you care so much about baseball? It’s just a game.” I’ve been asked this question hundreds of times. Why baseball? Why not politics or medicine or law? Why not cars or camping or hunting? Why not something that actually makes a ...
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Image courtesy of www.comc.com Jason Hart knows hitting. “Whenever I visited a new stadium, I had a personal goal to hit a home run that they talked about in that stadium,” Jason said. When Jason played for then-Southwest Missouri ...
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David knows all things movies and is writing a book about all things movies. Thanks to David, I have spent an inordinate amount of time this last week thinking about baseball movies and baseball scenes in movies. The following post is ...
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Whenever I kneel or squat or bend my right leg beyond what is required for normal perambulation, my knee sounds like Rice Krispies or the white noise pops of a vinyl record. The sound effects are courtesy of an ACL-meniscus-cartilage ...
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I was 9 when I first learned about Jackie Robinson. My family owned a series of hard-cover books published by Value Communications. Each book celebrated a different person whose life illustrated a noteworthy value. Hans Christian Anderson ...
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