These were my stories, my lessons, and my complexities. These were my experiences climbing the ladder to the heavens and trying to stay forever young through baseball. These were my tales of what I learned by "Going with the Pitch."
Throughout high school, I was a dead pull hitter. I never understood why pitchers kept feeding me fastballs on the inner half, but they kept doing it and so I kept hitting them. Occasionally I’d get some breaking balls and outside pitches, but by taking most and occasionally hitting some …
After 200+ college games, I found myself playing in an NCAA Regional against the number 29 ranked team in the nation, George Mason. We had no business winning that game but on this random day in baseball little Binghamton University from Upstate New York was the better team. I was …
People say you will never forget your first; that it can never be replicated quite the same. I remember my first time. I was 11 years old, just a boy, but my first official collegiate one was a memory I will forever remember… It was a fastball left out and …
Me and some of the other guys on the team used to joke during the “bad times” about the “96% rule”. Quite simply it stated that 96% of the time our lives sucked. We were either running, or studying, or picking up baseballs in the cage or striking out for …