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...last time I threw a serious bullpen session was when I was 12 years old, warming up for my start in the Greenwich Village Little League semifinals against the Cardinals and their feared six-foot slugger, Jonathan Trotman. I threw a complete game and got the win, probably the high point of my athletic career. In those days, I boasted an impressive array of pitches: slow and slower. I was more concerned with location, working the corners of the super-wide strike zone and making sure I didn’t walk the runny-nosed number eight hitter...
...Northeastern (21-17), 7-5, in a wet non-conference affair. With two outs and runners on the corners, sophomore third baseman Steffan Wilson crushed a 1-0 fastball from Huskies closer Matt Morizio through the now-driving rain into deep centerfield. The ball bounced up against the 435-foot mark on the wall as the centerfielder slipped in pursuit, and Northeastern bungled the relay throw, allowing Wilson to chug all the way around for an inside-the-park, go-ahead three-run homer. “It’s good to see the team fight back like that...
...think he just needed someone to have faith in him, and get his foot in the door for someone to look at him…I just told Coach Murphy ‘It’s a great story, [and] just from talking to [Tunovic], he seemed like he’d be a kid that’d do Harvard proud...
Also, it’s not really a square, but a 9,100 square foot shopping center, roughly 20 minutes east of St. Louis...
...time to raise her three children, my mother—a Harvard graduate, an attorney, and a self-proclaimed feminist—decided to quit working to commit herself full-time to motherhood. A few years later, she returned to work part-time, allowing her to keep her foot in the door as a partner in a law firm, lobby for environmental causes, and volunteer at my siblings’ elementary school. Far from abandoning personal happiness for childrearing, she, like many women, found motherhood fulfilling—a choice that too many feminists view as a waste...