The Tryouts
The Little League team was good. Really good. The nine mop-haired, lanky boys, clad in classic ‘70s harvest-gold uniforms, were undefeated this season. They had a shot at the pennant. But then, devastation.
Baseball
The Lights are Back on: Baseball’s Eternal Spring
“Game Called.”
Those words, penned by Grantland Rice in 1910, were originally solemn—a farewell, a benediction for the ballplayer stepping beyond this life’s final basepath.