Category: Baseball

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  Swing, Fail, Swing Again

  We played ball out back on a makeshift miniature diamond I mowed into the high, early summer St. Augustine grass. The 8-year-old stepped to the foam-rubber home plate, batting lefty, knees bent just so, arms high but relaxed, head cocked toward the pitcher — me. I wound up and tossed the…

  May 6, 2014
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  The Life and Times of Travis Harper (Or How Jorge Posada, Gary Sheffield, Alex Rodriguez and Hideki Matsui Taught Me to Keep Calm & Carry On)

  It’s almost soccer season again. This will be my older son’s fourth at the YMCA. It’ll be the first for our younger son, who seems genuinely eager to get it right. He only picked up the ball every eight seconds the last time we popped out for a kick-around in the…

  February 22, 2012