Chapter 2 Chapter 2 “Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball.” ~ Jim Murray “What are you teaching fall semester?” “Apathy,” Darryl replied, with little...

Chapter 1 I Was Kidding “When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing . . . I told him I wanted to be a real Major League Baseball Player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he’d like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.” ~ Dwight...