If I'm going to be a good baseball tutor to the high school kid I was hired to tutor in baseball, we're going to need a batting cage to practice his hitting in. My student Lucas knew of one down in Alhambra, which turned out to be a combination batting cage/car wash run by a … Continue reading A Trip to the Batting Cage (last part)
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My Baseball Pupil (last part)
I know it may not look like you have to be a great athlete to play ball – we stand around a lot while soccer players never stop running around until their weirdass clock counts all the way up – but baseball takes a lot of athleticism. We have to be able to do four … Continue reading My Baseball Pupil (last part)
An Opportunity (last part)
So the parents of this dude I met at the bar where Keaton works called me over to their home in Pasadena to see if I was interested in being their younger son’s “baseball tutor” – from what I could make out, the kid was desperate to make the team at his school and they … Continue reading An Opportunity (last part)
An Opportunity (part 1)
Ok, so y’all remember Carter? He’s the dude that Keaton saved from a fight a while ago, and who talked to me at the Volcano the night of that crazy 18 inning game in the World Series. When I met him that second time, he was all interested in how I’d been a ball player. … Continue reading An Opportunity (part 1)
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