My Land of Innocence was located across the street from a ballpark. By age five, baseball was a passion—my first love. The ballpark became my second home. In the summer, there was seldom a time when I wasn’t the first kid in the park in the morning and the last one to...
In 1981 the Texas Rangers were on the last day of a road trip in Seattle when a call came into the locker room. The manager took the call and then quickly came to my locker to say my wife’s obstetrician was on the phone. I immediately jumped up in alarm to answer the...
“Three Revelations About God” The most important game of my baseball career had the most stressful day. A late inning win by the Kansas City Royals the night before sent us to the final game of the ’85 World Series. We took the kids out to a park in order...
