Wow, I said to myself, it's amazing what a little baseball can do. Oh, I was throwing my baseball at the shed and I guess I threw too hard. Dad was not impressed in the least. I can't believe you'd be so stupid. I never did become a pitcher.
Pitchers have to be fast, accurate, and above all, smart.
Power can be stupid. A Close Call One winter's night around 6 p.m. I had been delivering newspapers up north of that windy quarter-mile stretch north of town and was walking south back toward town through the snow. I was 14 and far too young to die. As the car came closer it appeared that the driver had spotted me and was heading straight for me on the shoulder in an attempt to run me down. Coming out of town toward me were the wavering headlights of a car being driven fast and erratically.