This is my first Opening Day without my dad. Not that Opening Day had been a ritual for us, or that it holds any particularly special meaning beyond our shared love of baseball. But my dad and I did share many of these ceremonial beginnings, mostly of the amateur kind as he coached my Little…
Mon, Mar 5 Lyssa, we got a new hitting coach. it is raining today probably going to rain tomorrow too. say HI to your mom. Wed, Mar 7 Coach says my swing will be a lot better if I learn to tap my toe. say HI to your mom. she doing better? Thu, Mar 8…
Baseball starts at 10. You should wake up fifteen minutes before that. This has been your routine for the past two and a half years. Having a game to watch is one of the only reliable ways you have had to convince yourself to get out of bed. It has always worked before this year….
You wake up one morning and everything is fine. Your room looks the same as it did when you went to sleep. Nothing has been disturbed or altered. You didn’t have the nightmares last night. There are no demons in this room. You feel okay. You get out of bed and open the curtain. It…
This past weekend I found myself at a Goodwill, as one does when one has children who somehow go through pajamas faster than they go through meals. While sustaining the basic needs of said offspring, I discovered one of my favorite things: a monster box of baseball cards for seven dollars, filled with the usual…
You are 10 years old, and it’s Tuesday, and your little league tryouts are on Thursday, and you are sick. It’s the middle of February. One holiday Monday off school was enough for your body’s defenses to relax themselves a bit too much: You woke up with your stomach twisting in knots, your head throbbing,…
Three pieces reflecting on the 1985 World Series, 2018 spring training, and the long road from there to here.
(photo credit: © Steve Mitchell-USA TODAY Sports) In the midst of their already-historic fire sale, the Miami Marlins recently announced that yet another head was rolling: The man who had, to that point, worn the suit known as Billy Marlin had been terminated from his position. While it was already sad and disturbing to see…