APRIL 1990
Coach outlined his strategy.
“We want to take away the suicide squeeze… Runner on 3rd. Less than two outs. If there is any indication that the batter might bunt, I will call for time…” Continue reading
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An Old Man Walks Into a Batting Cage
The following took place on my 40th birthday…
A 40 year old man sidles up to a batting cage counter.
“Slow pitch?”, says the late teens, early twenty something lad on the other side.
RING
In 1988, my traveling baseball team won a district championship.
In 1990, the same thing happened.
In 1991, I was selected for the district team. We won the county championship. The island championship. And the state championship.
When we lost two straight games in the regional tournament, one of the infielders defecated in my hotel room bed that night…
Continue readingDOUBLES
They are called Two-baggers. It’s an extra base hit. You get to to run full throttle for one hundred and eighty feet.
I hit three great doubles in my life.
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