I wanted to play catcher. I tried on the cool-looking equipment at baseball practice and didn’t contract lice, a definite perk of being bald. At some point that same year, I met Royals’ catcher John Wathan when he was signing autographs and ...
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Baseball
Day #132
"You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary."
—Frederick Buechner
I think the last time I played catch with a softball it was with the team from Drury when I was trying to learn how to hit a home run for Bombs for Bo. I played ...
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Day #131
Noble told me the story of “Roadblocks versus Tollbooths” shortly before he hit the road. He’s headed to Des Moines, Iowa to serve as chaplain for the Missouri State University softball team as they play Southern Illinois tonight.
“Every ...
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Day #130
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make ...
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Day #129
I know you’re not supposed to point. Growing up bald, I was on the receiving end of so many finger pointings. If I had a nickel…
My friend Aaron once joked that our church should be called “Beards and Babies” which is really funny because ...
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