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Tag Archives: Baseball
From Box Scores to the Field
Faith in the head keeps score; faith in the heart changes the game. Here’s why moving out of your head and into your heart makes all the difference. Baseball season is … Continue reading
Spring Training Weekend
Outside my window, across the street is the campus of a community college. Beyond that, probably about a mile away, is the airport with a plane taking off every minute or two. The airport building from here looks like Noah’s … Continue reading
Get your head in the Game!
It’s time for baseball. The longest season in all of professional sports is about to begin. Think about it. With spring training starting the end of February and the World Series now stretching into early November, there are only two … Continue reading
Vin Scully 1927-2022
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) “Hi, everybody, and a very pleasant good evening to you wherever you may be. It’s time for Dodger baseball!” Anyone who’s had any connection to southern California knows that the … Continue reading
The Voice of Dodger Stadium
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) With the All Star game set for tonight in Dodger Stadium, it seemed fitting to go back to a Catch I wrote in 2016 in honor of Vin Scully’s last … Continue reading
Two players doth not a baseball team make
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) My Angels have fallen from heaven. Their halos are crooked. They started out this season so promising. They were tied for first place at one point and they have two … Continue reading
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On the road again
(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) Yesterday was Catch Ministry Day at the ballpark. I figured four people associated with the Catch at a single event was enough to make it official. On my left is … Continue reading
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Heaven is in Arizona
I am in heaven. You’ve heard of stories of people visiting heaven briefly and coming back. Lambert Dolphin has one of those stories. This is better. I’m in heaven right now. I am writing this from heaven. Contrary to popular … Continue reading
The ice is cracking on our isolation
By the time you read this, I will be headed east on Interstate 10 towards Phoenix, Arizona, and Tempe Diablo Stadium for the first Los Angeles Angels spring training game I have attended in two years. Most of you already … Continue reading
Missing the crowds
I’m so excited. Marti and I have tickets to see Hershey Felder perform Monsieur Chopin tomorrow night at the local theater. Felder is an incredible talent who has created a number of one-man shows where he dons the clothes, the … Continue reading
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