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Facing the Winter Alone….another Baseball Season comes to an End…
“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains … Continue reading →
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A Ball Game with Saint Pete: The confluence of Baseball and Faith
This is a re-written version of an article that I wrote last year and is part of my “Meeting Jesus and the Team at 7-11” series. The original; was written shortly after my dad died last summer. Today I revised … Continue reading →
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A Ball Game with Saint Pete
A week after I met Jesus and the team at 7-11 I found out that I was selected to be promoted to the rank of Commander in the Navy Chaplain Corps. While still in amazed wonderment about that meeting and … Continue reading →
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Why Baseball Matters….There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball
“Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season–these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be … Continue reading →
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The 2009 Season at Harbor Park…the View from 102 a Season in Pictures
Well, baseball season is now been over a couple of weeks, but the AAA season ended here on September 4th. What began in March with an exhibition games between the Orioles and Nationals and ended with a win over the … Continue reading →
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