What Happens When Our Lives End

Jun 12 2019 by Viva El Birdos

 
The epitaph read: Baseball 1991-2015—his birth year and the last year he played the game. Under it laid his life.

I sit in our first-base dugout preparing to play another no-name team in a no-name league wearing another no-name jersey in a stadium fittingly known as The Clink. The mid-west heat rises with the mid-day sun and our clubhouse manager limps out to the mound to throw batting practice in denim jeans, a full-sleeved western button-down shirt, dinner plate-sized belt buckle,...

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