Upper Deck Power, Part 2

article 2009 upper deck power p2 Upper Deck Power, Part 2When I begin to write an article, I often sit and try to find a motivating factor. Yet now as I write of baseball, it is not only the easiest topic for me to discuss, but the most daunting as well. With this in mind, please let me explain something that I should have told you in my opening piece in this series.

To my left sits an old catcher’s mitt on the book shelf, worn and battered through time and service. It is a reminder of the past. Decades ago, this mitt and its pint-sized predecessor that I grew out of, would come along everywhere I went: to school, to the run-down old lot and to the driveway, where I would await my Dad’s return home and the start of the nightly ritual of “catch.” Baseball wasn’t just a game, then. It was part of the fabric of your life and conversation that needed no introduction.

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