She had fouled off of the curves that life had thrown at her.

The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

I knew how to read box scores and who the baseball heroes were before I had ever seen or even heard much of a game.

Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the game without music, then they should stay home.

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.