Baseball

The idea sparked at the Field of Dreams screening. A catch-playing road trip. Initially, I didn’t pay any attention to the idea. But it wouldn’t leave me alone. While the girls were at school, I’d find myself thinking of places I wanted ...
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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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"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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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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