I don’t know how old I was the first time I got a baseball mitt, though I suppose it would have been when I began playing Tee Ball in kindergarten. If my memory serves correct, I first used a light tan Ozzie Smith model glove, and if I wore it today, it would probably be [...]
Posts Tagged ‘family and friends’
Thoughts on George Brett and the glove he inspired
Posted: 22nd March 2010 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: family and friends, George Brett
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Baseball, the great equalizer
Posted: 2nd January 2010 by Graham Womack in MLBTags: family and friends
My friend Chris has been in California, visiting from Washington D.C. recently, and today, we did something that has become a tradition of sorts for us. We went to visit Helen. Helen is a 92-year-old woman who used to live next door to Chris’s family when he was in elementary school. I never knew her [...]
A gift from a friend
Posted: 31st December 2009 by Graham Womack in MLBTags: family and friends, politics
One of my favorite stories from The Onion, a satirical newspaper I like to read, tells of a White House slam dunk competition that results in no slam dunks. “I tell you, this is some sorry stuff I’m seeing,” celebrity judge and former San Antonio Spur George “Iceman” Gervin is quoted as saying in the [...]
Nancy Bartlett
Posted: 7th September 2009 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: family and friends
I got a sad phone call recently. The mother of my childhood best friend Devin had died after an illness. Her name was Nancy, and she deserves credit for getting me into baseball. I met Devin the summer before kindergarten. I was out with my family one evening walking our dog and saw Devin outside, [...]
The Aloysius Travers of wiffle ball
Posted: 4th May 2009 by Graham Womack in UncategorizedTags: ancient past, childhood memories, family and friends
On May 15, 1912, Ty Cobb went into the stands in New York after a crippled heckler and set up for the one of the more bizarre games in major league history. As recounted in one of my favorite books, Ken Burns’ Baseball, the Detroit Tigers immortal earned a suspension from organized ball after going [...]