After the first game, I grabbed a cheeseburger, fries, and Dr Pepper and tried to find a warm seat to watch the second semi-final game featuring the Springfield Metropolitans and the Branson Showmen. By game’s end, the temperature was 44 ...
Read Article
Baseball
GRBL Semi-Finals #1
On Sunday, October 18, the day after my younger daughter turned 16, the two remaining National League teams competed for a place in the 2020 MLB World Series. The Los Angeles Dodgers faced the Atlanta Braves at Globe Life Field in ...
Read Article
Baseball is Hard
“Baseball is hard. Don’t forget that. It really is a hard game.”
Rance has tried to encourage me with those words throughout this sprint of a season, after another groundout or strikeout.
I visited with BVG after one such groundout. ...
Read Article
Friends
The year of playing catch wasn’t a year of collecting catch partners like baseball cards.
I got Jim “The Rookie” Morris and Mary Moore and Bill Virdon!
It was a year of making new friends through a play-filled sharing of ...
Read Article
Going Home
Going home is the whole point of baseball.
Home is the place from which you start, where all the action occurs. Staring down the pitcher. Taking deep breaths. Trying to do the nigh impossible task of squaring up a ball with a round ...
Read Article