When I was in middle school, my family and extended family started a tradition of going to Calloway Gardens every October to celebrate my grandfather's...
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Currently, I am a baseball player competing on a DIII baseball in college.  It hasn't been an easy road for me to get as far as I have, but one game in...
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I won two tickets to see the Oakland A's play the Baltimore Orioles at home. There was only person n the world who was going to take me, and that was...
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I'm so old, I can remember when Blue Jays games were still held in Exhibition Stadium. I remember my dad used to take me every so often and I loved it. I...
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For some reason, I developed a HUGE, gynormous crush on Minnesota Twins second baseman, Edward Charles "Chuck" Knoblauch. HUGE doesn't actually...
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It was a Cinderella summer for my favorite baseball team, The Minnesota Twins. They'd gone from worst to first and were headed to the World Series to face...
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My wish for you, America: That you experience one World Series and one Super Bowl in your lifetime. Not at my city's expense, of course. Which makes me...
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Baseball is in my blood. I was swinging a Nerf bat as soon as I could walk, was throwing a ball against our living room wall as soon as I could stand, and...
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I had only just discovered that my new American boyfriend simply adored baseball, when Richard Marx made a video for a song called Take This Heart that...
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My beloved Philadelphia Phillies had just won the National League, taking the Atlanta Braves four games to two in the League Championship Series. We'd be...
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Here's the thing about Meat Loaf (Meatloaf? I never know if it's one word or two; I seem to have misplaced his embossed business card.) Apparently The Loaf...
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