Let's Play Ball

“You’re going to have so much fun!” He looked ecstatic, “Look on the bright side, you’ll make more friends now!”

One cold sunny weekend in February of 2014 in Madison, MS the Saint Stanislaus boys just arrived to the hotel where they would stay for the night before the big game. All was good the night before we ate and later went to sleep. We all woke up around eight in the morning and had breakfast. We left for the fields around twelve because the game was at two in the evening.

I entered the huddle and Josh uttered with worrieness in his voice, ” We will never win”. Hard to say but I agreed with him. One kid stood next to him that I never saw before. He was about 6’3. He must have been a 5th or 6th string.

It was the bright stadium lights that gave Cotter an inexplicable feeling of wonder. “He thought there was an unknown energy flaring down out of the light towers, some intenser working of the earth, and it isolated the players and the grass and the chalk-rolled lines from anything he’d ever seen or imagined” (23). It is the beaming lights on a baseball field and its players that brings focus and a sense of security to a

It was a perfect morning in Allen, Texas. The sun was shining and the birds were chirping. Jason was riding in his pickup truck on his way to school. Going past corn field by corn field he heard this on the radio, “It’s game day for our boys in blue today, and we are going to have a good one. I mean just look at the way the day is

Dad gave me smile while gently rubbing my back and said "come on, let's have dinner" dad whisper chirpily and I nodded my head ceaseless with a grin.

A typical Friday night for Arizona baseball, we were under the lights in a night game. The aroma of

“ You guy are awful,” Mike laughed,” I can’t believe we play you guys!” The Twisters-Chiefs baseball game had just been postponed for the next day due to daylight.

"Can you believe that we are about to officially have four healthy and beautiful children?" Lena said a couple minutes later.

When the game arrived, they won. Jake hit the winning home run. After that game, a guy Jake didn’t know came up to him and asked him if he wanted to play in the league. Jake said yes, and the man said, “Then come to our next practice at two o’clock tomorrow.”

His team made it to the national championship game. It was a bitter cold September night and the Alabama Roll-Tide was playing the Florida Gators in the college football national championship game. At the blaze of a firework, both teams sprinted onto the field. Rick boldly lead his team out while the roar of the crowd pierced his ears. “Can it get better than this...?” Rick asked himself with a smile on his face as he marched to his team's bench. His brother Nick was standing on the sidelines with a big grin as he watched his brother triumphantly walk on the field. Rick went on to play the game of his life and lead the Roll-Tide to a national championship victory as a freshman. When the clock struck zero, Rick and his teammates ran onto the field and celebrated. Confetti flew everywhere and the crowd went crazy. From the sidelines, tears of joy streamed down Nick's face as Rick received the championship trophy. “That’s my brother!” He screamed. But it was time for something everyone in Nick's family had been dreading ever since the boys were born, telling Rick of his real family's

“So, yeah, you all are sitting around me with your established lives—” She paused, and placed a hand on Rachael’s arm. “I really am happy for you guys. All that love and babies and shit is great.”

Merlin heard his mother 's gasp resound across the near silent room. He grinned, wondering what she was going to think of the next part.

“I guess a little, but you know that I’ve been doing this for a long time, right? But I’m very excited for you, little sis.” Patrick replied.

“Mom I am ready, can we also go play by the lighthouse tonight with Zoey and Monica.”Zoe said.