I Was Right On Time is the autobiography of Buck O’Neil, Negro League player, manager, and all around wonderful human being. This is a must read for any baseball fan. Buck traces his path from skipping high school because he wasn’t allowed to attend the local high school, through his years playing and managing in [...]
Interesting local controversy. A kid that has enlisted in the USMC wants to wear a non-sanctioned patriotic tassel, even though school rules are very clear that graduation is about official high school achievements only. After the principal said no they took it to the school board and now it’s in the press. 1. The kid [...]
The Last Best League follows a group of college kids that are playing for the Chatham A’s of the Cape Cod League. The Cape Cod League is the premier summer league for college baseball players. Just about every kid playing is a legitimate major league prospect. The season is short, only about 45 games. For [...]
Teenage unemployment is currently running at 25%. I can’t think of a single teenager that I know that has a traditional part-time job. My 18 year old son is a certified fencing referee. Not exactly the traditional teenager job. I started working before I was 10. My father would get me odd jobs doing yard [...]
This past weekend I road tripped with my son to Atlanta for a family visit while he competed in the Peach State Open. Here are a few things I learned on the trip. The Toyota Corolla is surprisingly comfortable on long drives. It was 10 hours there and 9.5 hours coming home, and my back [...]
With my son’s recent decision to attend the University of Mary Washington, now seems like a good time to brain dump on what we learned getting our first homeschooled kid into college. This may not be well organized… 1. Start keeping records when they start “9th grade.” We had to take an archaeological approach and [...]
Another post about Buck O’Neil and The Soul of Baseball. Buck shook his head and looked me in the eyes. And very slowly, with a teacher’s edge in his voice, Buck said this: “Son, in this life, you don’t ever walk by a red dress.” Buck was answering a question about why he (a 94 [...]
My wife returned from the ladies room at the movie theater recently with an interesting, and slightly disturbing story. Another woman at the mirror in the ladies room commented that she thought they were using a trick mirror that made you look slimmer, probably in an attempt to get woman to feel better about ordering [...]
Since we hit the big 20 year milestone last year I’ve been asked a few times about our “secret.” I don’t think we have one, and I usually laughed off addressing that question by saying something along the lines of our secret being that neither of us spent any time obsessing over the secret to [...]
Last week, I tried a little experiment. I set Firefox to delete all cookies on close. I expected to hate the hassle of logging in to sites every day. It turns out that I don’t really have that many sites that I actually need to log into daily. Mail, Facebook, and Google Plus are about [...]
