Not New -Just Renewed! — I’ve walked this planet for 66 years, and hope to stay around for another 34 — then, I’ll reevaluate! This from someone who wasn’t expected to reach age 30, and hoped to live down to that expectation! I didn’t trust anyone over 30 then — so I never wanted to…

A New Journey Began — As Another Culminated — I passed a milestone today that kind of stopped me in my tracks, and made me think about, and remember, how something like this seemed utterly impossible on the day this journey began, 38 years ago. That was the day I started working for the same outfit I still work…

Spending a Day in My Idea of Heaven — My connection to this place is deep and treasured. We began to come down here the year after Dad passed, in 1997. Dad had always been the glue that held this large family together, as he was the great communicator. We all had some form of regular communication with him…

Safe at Home, at last! — We have reached the bottom of the ninth in this 18 part series of stories about why I love baseball like I do. From my earliest memory, of getting hit in the nose with a baseball bat, I have had baseball in my blood. There was a lot of it…

The Next Generation — J.B.’s Big Moment — We have made it to the penultimate story of this series! It’s the top of the 9th, yet I still have so much more I want to say about the game of baseball — why I love it so, and why it means so much to me. It could easily…

A Game I Remember with More Fondness Than Any Other — Between 1964 and 1970, I went to at least 150 baseball games at Forbes Field, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, including the last two games ever played there, a Sunday afternoon doubleheader in June, 1970. I was 9 years old in ’64 when I started going to games on my…

The Magical Powers of the Homerun Cherry Pit — We played a lot of whiffle ball in the summertime in the alley between Brookline Boulevard and Berkshire Avenue in the Brookline section of Pittsburgh. I have such fond memories of that — it seemed like the whole world was right then. I had friends, good friends, who loved to…

An Eternal Moment — Never Forget — One of my favorite moments on a baseball (softball) diamond came on a night a lot like this night. It was in the gloaming of a mid-summer evening, right at that moment when the sun has descended beyond the horizon, but the sky and all of the surrounding landscape are…

Running for President — I love those ice-breaker questions you get sometimes in a meeting when they want people to get to know each other a little better. “Tell us something about yourself that most people don’t know, or would never guess about you?” I have a lot of things that work well as…