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Playing Catch with Aaron Judge
It’s the question I posed 162 different times to 162 different people over the last year and a half. To have it asked of me, by one of...
rhett80
Aug 3, 20222 min read


A Lifetime of Playing Catch
It all started when I was about 6 years old in a very poor neighborhood. All the children made our gloves and balls of paper wrapped with...
rhett80
Oct 30, 20203 min read


Playing Catch for the Kids
Sometime during the 2016 Detroit Tiger season, I noticed the first base coach, Omar Vizquel, was coming out of the dugout with a baseball...
rhett80
Oct 2, 20201 min read


Playing Catch with a Special Glove
I'm a little league baseball mom. Some moms have the star player or sons who are really gifted athletically. My son, Rhett, is not the...
rhett80
Jun 26, 20201 min read


Play Catch is a Family Connection
Like so many of the things in life that you do and give little thought, I completely ignored what playing catch meant to me until I was...
rhett80
Jun 18, 20202 min read


It's Never too Late to Play Catch
Growing up with five brothers and watching them play baseball while having to cook and clean was no fun at all. To make up for lost...
rhett80
Jun 18, 20201 min read


Playing Catch is a Family Affair
Playing catch is important to me because it is foreign…. I grew up in Australia and our version of catch was playing cricket or football...
rhett80
Jun 18, 20201 min read


Catch Was Always There
Playing catch has been something that has been present in my life almost as long as I can remember. My earliest days in the backyard with...
rhett80
Jun 9, 20201 min read


Why I Play Catch
Playing catch to me is personal. There may be no other activity as personal as playing catch. You see the person as who they are, they...
rhett80
May 29, 20203 min read


Playing Catch 365 Days a Year
It started with a dream. An audacious dream of wearing the white and scripted blue of the Kansas City Royals, running on to the field,...
rhett80
May 29, 20204 min read


A Major League Game of Catch
You can play catch with your son everyday, but one day, you will wish you had one more.
rhett80
May 29, 20204 min read
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