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A man who is standing right there on the pitcher’s mound is staring through my eyes. It’s like a tiger has already locked on its target, waiting for the quarry…
Twerp's Revenge
Twerp yelped like an umpire’s OUT! as the purple alien flung him through the air by his tongue wrapped feet. Flailing around to face the creature’s bulging…
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
“Come with me,” Death said gently to the boy. “It’s time to go home to heaven.” “No,” the boy replied. “I’m not going. You’re a stranger and I am not supposed…
Twerp’s Big Surprise
“Sorry, I’m late gu-uhh...” Twerp’s jaw dropped with a thud, along with his favorite scuffed baseball. Being tardy for practice again today turned out to be…
The Wanderer Follows...
They didn’t know what woke him up. Whatever it had been, must have been powerful. It all felt so unreal, yet the time, his appearance, it was all true. He had…
The First Pitch
Joey was the youngest kid, at the age of 7, to win the chance to throw the opening pitch at a Toronto Blue Jays Home Game. Joey was giddy and nervous as he…
The Fourth Inning
Buckeye had another incident with the Brewers that was a lot less flattering. It seems Buckeye tried to field a bunt, but tripped and landed flat, face down in…
The Third Inning
Thinking Brewer’s pitcher, Jack Knott, had whacked Dunlap intentionally, Dutch Zwilling, the Blues manager, charged the mound and began pummeling Knott. Arthur…
The Second Inning
Unfortunately Buckeye, whose nickname was “Gobs,” was best known, when he is known at all, for two things. (1) Allowing two of Babe Ruth’s 60 home runs in…
In the First Inning
God loves baseball. The Almighty has never missed a game, and not just Major Leaguers like the Yankees, Giants or even the Cubs. God has seen tee ball, little…
Baseball Princess
“Sweetheart, my wife is head of the cheerleading squad. I’ll get you in with her for this winter, no problem. Plus, I know my boys that cross train could use…
Hell Week at College
It was an awful week. He already had some 500 word exams due by Friday and his computer got a virus and would not even turn on. The format for these exams was…
The Little Unknown Baseball Player Series - Part Two
I would never forget listening to the games being called by Fred Hoey, a voice that would describe every pitch, and every hit that Babe would perform. I…
The Little Unknown Baseball Player Series
It was the middle of the summer and another season of baseball was upon us. The heat was scorching the fields and players were hitting runs for their teams, it…
Evidence
I gasped Behold! The baseball has magically landed at my feet! The leaves on the trees rustled in the wind, and fallen branches snapped as someone, or…
At Last Glance
I hate that feeling when you know it’s going to rain, but your grandpa sends you outside to retrieve a baseball you lost. As you make your way outside, you…
The Last Wish
The crack of the ball as it smacked against the weathered Louisville Slugger echoed against the old elm trees surrounding the park. He stood at that dusty home…