A DIAMOND IN THE
ROUGH
Former baseball player helps out team of middle
schoolers, offers kernels of pseudo-wisdom
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photos by Tim Whaling
t’s a brisk, cloudy April day in Dripping Springs. The cool
The writer tells one of his players to go to second on a base hit to left field. He didn’t go to second.
Asa makes eye contact with me, incredulous as a puppy who didn’t get rewarded for performing a trick. You said to just throw strikes. How could that have happened? I just sigh and shade in the Red Sox’s eighth run in the scorebook.
Senior Andy Brown balances having a conversation with an injured player and keeping score.
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