baseball
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Vol. 2, Chronicle 18
As the Carpenter’s sang, “long ago & oh so far away”, I informed my dad some 40 years ago that I was leaving school for a job on the team sales side of the sporting goods industry. He begged… Continue reading
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VOLUME 2, CHRONICLE 4, NATIONAL WOMEN & GIRLS IN SPORT DAY 2025, let me tell you, my beautiful granddaughters, a story from the steps: This isn’t meant to be about athletics, though it is about women in athletics. Women who… Continue reading
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Vol.1, Chronicle 51
(FROM 12/16/2022, A GOODBYE LETTER TURNED GENESIS: We all have landmarks on our human journey, significant places or events like Peniel in Genesis for Jacob after a night grappling with an angel or Ray Kinsella in the Iowa corn after… Continue reading
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Vol 1, Chronicle 48FREE BASEBALL FLASHBACK TO 3RD & O’NEAL: As Juan Soto prepares to sign a deal that pays close to $125 a minute for his next few circuits around the sun & cause MLB concession prices to look… Continue reading
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Vol.1 Chronicle 42, Nat’l Coaches Day
NATIONAL COACHES DAY ‘24, A STUDY IN BLACK AND WHITE OF WHAT YOU NEED: Yesterday, October 6th, was National Coaches Day. I’m intentionally late in posting on October 7th, but we’ll get to that. Coaches do so much that no… Continue reading
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Living dangerously…
SPORTS STORIES FROM THE STEPS, SEASON 1, GAME 1, IDOLS & LIVING DANGEROUS: “…Heroes I wish I’d never met, but he ain’t naming names…”~Kenny Chesney~ “If this bus could talk” As I get older, I realize that a lot of… Continue reading
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Vol.1, Chronicle 18: Teacher Appreciation Week
VOLUME 1, CHRONICLE 18, TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK: “…You stand at the edge while people run you through, I thank the Lord there’s people out there like you…”Elton John “Mona Lisas & Mad Hatters Miss Julie & I are privileged to… Continue reading
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Vol.1, Chronicle 7, Souvenirs Redux
VOLUME 1, CHRONICLE 7, SOUVENIRS REDUX, let me tell you a story from the steps: Well, it’s really two intertwined stories, the first, a present day tale, the second published in March of 2022 though the scroll started on a… Continue reading
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Vol. 1 Chronicle 5, Pine tar & tennis balls…
VOLUME 1, CHRONICLE 5: Let me tell you a 2021 story from the steps. On this day in 2019, I wished my coach Doug Moser a happy birthday. I didn’t know it would be the last time, I didn’t know… Continue reading
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Volume 1, Chronicle 3
VOLUME 1, CHRONICLE 3, Let me tell you a story about what I learned 50 years ago today, January 14, 1974, other football thoughts & a 99 on a science test: Super Bowl 8 was played on the 13th day… Continue reading
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