Ground Rules
Shana Agid
Summers to Harridge, April 20, 1950: I am writing to inform you of the changes in the Washington ball park. It is rather difficult to explain but I will try to give you a picture.
Maybe you
Summers to Harridge, April 20, 1950: I am writing to inform you of the changes in the Washington ball park. It is rather difficult to explain but I will try to give you a picture.
Maybe you
By late ‘88 I had mastered Eck’s three-quarter delivery...
Well, if you're reading lips, you'll hear some words that are not necessarily used on family TV.
The year everyone was hitting home runs, Barry Bonds made lunch with his arms.
I kissed my father’s cheek for good luck in the firehouse driveway.
The victim was the leadoff hitter for the Matsushima Baseball Ocean Temple Gods in the bottom of the first.
His gravesite at Holy Cross Cemetery brought a lump to my throat.
Just mid-February but a day like summer
I saw Candy the next time I went out. And the time after that. And the time after that.
I suppose all sports officials are gods of a sort...
Crack! The sound of impact, ball on bat...
In the original cut of the movie, Ray says, “You wanna have a catch?” But test audiences were disappointed with the complete lack of father-son acknowledgement.
Later I’ll tell him that in baseball you never know where the ball will go...
My friends lived for bottle rockets and Boy Scout merit badges; I, however, lived for called third strikes.
I couldn’t cut my hair (I’m no sheep) and I sure as hell couldn’t change my love of the Houston Astros.
I ended up in right field, ponytail eschew, cap falling to the bridge of my nose, shadowing my freckled cheeks.
"If Elizabeth Ellen exists, I would tell her it was like she channeled the anthemic scorn of Alanis Morrisette’s “You Outta Know” through Anais Nin, in her own inimitable way. And if Elizabeth Ellen doesn’t exist, at least she can invent herself.
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“Legs Get Led Astray is a scorching hot glitter box full of youthful despair and dark delight.”
—Cheryl Strayed, author of WILD
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