Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Rust


The pride of a certain Big Ten school of management visited her parents last night.  It being March, we went to hit before we ate.  The rust in the swing was to be expected after two-plus months of inactivity.

Spring is the best time to go to the batting cages, all those big-league dreams and weird swings crowded together.  First a father, then his son commented on what “a good swing” Clare had.  The boy couldn’t have been more than eight.  He was perched next to me, hands on the top railing, feet on the middle bar.  “She played baseball first,” I told him.

“That’s why she has such a good swing,” he answered.  Out of the mouth of a child….  

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