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July 15, 2022

Finding Out What’s Under Second Base

Sports teaches us many useful lessons: how to be a team player, how to handle defeat, and how excellence comes with practice. Lex Urban learned a different lesson on his Little League ballfield–one he’s carried with him to this day as an attorney.
November 27, 2017

I Don’t Play to the Grandstand

The late Baseball Hall of Famer Bobby Doerr believed in what he called “doing good in order to deserve good.” The former Red Sox second baseman said he’d rather do things that help his teammates and his family succeed instead of simply benefiting himself. He passed away on November 13, 2017.
October 2, 2017

The Freedom of Baseball

Miami attorney Hillary Kambour isn’t just a baseball fan, rooting for the Marlins and the Giants. She also believes in the game: the athleticism and focus of the players, the camaraderie of the fans, and the traditions it inspires in her own family.
July 29, 2015

A Cultural Transformation

“Many people go fishing all of their lives not knowing that it is not the fish they are after.” The wit by Henry Thoreau crosses my mind as my eyes stop at this 19-years old tennis racquet on the garage...
July 1, 2015

Soccer

I believe playing soccer. I have been playing soccer since I was 7 years old when my dad introduced it to me on my back yard. Soccer is something I play to separate myself from the world and relieve all...
July 1, 2015

In the End Do the Best You Can

Swimming has been my whole life. From early morning practice to the biggest meet of the year, I was always expected to do my best. When I was in high school I love the expectations because I always surpassed them....
July 1, 2015

Sports

My belief started for me at a very young age. When I was 4 years old, my father introduced me into a bizarre new lifestyle that would later become a significant part of my life. This lifestyle was called sports....
July 1, 2015

Team Sports

Sidewinders, Twins, Yankees: these are just a few of the baseball teams I have been a part of over the many years I played baseball for Plymouth New Hope Little League. These years spent playing on a team definitely made...
June 15, 2015

Home Is in the Heart

“Where we love is home--home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.”-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. The crowd fell silent, until the gun - clasped in the hand of a man crowned by a feather headdress, sitting horseback -...