I went to the same high school as Brad Pitt. He starred in the baseball movie Moneyball, which has a horribly depressing scene about the Kansas City Royals. I remember listening to that game on the radio while playing spades.
I went to ...
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Catch 365
In 2018, Ethan played catch every day with a partner. You can find the book he wrote about it here.
The Secret Magic of Playing Catch
Baseball is magic.
Like watching David Copperfield, it often leaves us wowed and wondering what in the world we just witnessed. Or, like watching the mesmerizing sleight-of-hand work of Shin Lim, we become speechless, the synapses in our ...
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Day #65 – Travis
On the final day of 2023, Travis Edwards completed his catch-playing year.
“I’m still processing my journey. I’ve never been good at completing New Year’s resolutions. But this was different. Every day, I was intentionally focusing on ...
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Wanna Play Catch…Again?
In 2018, inspired by my daughters, I played catch every day for the entire year.
That year changed my life.
I wrote a book about it, which published in 2020. People read that book and they, too, picked up their gloves and started ...
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Libraries, Books, and Being a Neighbor
Matt took his son to the library. They went for the express purpose of looking for baseball books to read.
I’m certain that this trip to the library was like so many previous trips to the library. Picking books up, thumbing through them, ...
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