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 ...
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Alopecia Awareness Month
September is Alopecia Awareness Month. Below is a part of my alopecia story, as told in A Year of Playing Catch.
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After living in Grand Junction, Colorado, for one year, just thirty miles from the Utah border with views of ...
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Thank You
A Year of Playing Catch officially publishes tomorrow and I am so excited I couldn’t sleep. Last night, I tossed and turned and eventually crawled out of bed around 5 AM, much to the delight of the dog and cat. I thought about the number 1 ...
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Opening Day
It’s July 23, 2020.
Major League Baseball’s Opening Day.
Players are gearing up for a 60-game season in which they’ll play in stadiums with cardboard cutout fans and piped-in fan noise. Both leagues will employ the Designated Hitter, ...
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Quarantine Catch – Porky McDonald
In November and December of 2019, I dreamed of traveling and making new catch-playing friends leading up to and beyond the publication of A Year of Playing Catch in September. I had a notebook where I wrote down schedules of minor league ...
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