Dougie Walsh called his coach and pleaded with him to give him another shot on the mound. His last performance did not go so well and Dougie was dropped from the rotation. He invited his coach over to his accuracy obstacle course to show him his new and improved pitches. Convinced that Dougie could make…
Read more The Boy Who Threw Strikes – An Unhittable Performance, With A Catch
I didn’t travel much outside of New England during the 2 plus years of Covid-19. I am probably not alone in that statement. Many people stayed home or stayed local due to travel restrictions and state, federal guidelines on travel. I missed traveling and am so excited that I have gotten back to it in…
Read more The Fayetteville Woodpeckers And Super Long Train Experience
I love attending baseball games on any level. Local youth baseball games with the stars of tomorrow playing in oversized shirts, baggy pants and their nervous parents pacing behind the dugouts. High school games, like yesterday’s Narragansett vs Middletown, which featured my amazing nephew Jackson Hohl in LF (great game Jackson, you had that dude…
Dougie Walsh had a new grip on the baseball that allowed him to experiment with a wide range of pitches. His youth coaches had always preached throwing strikes and pitching to contact. Dougie, with his insane accuracy, often took this advice too literally and was often on the wrong end of 10 run rule games…
Read more The Boy Who Threw Strikes – Hang Loose Everybody, Hang Loose
Admittedly, my artistic drawing ability starts and ends with stick figures and primitive sketches. My character’s faces typically have no eyes, no nose, no mouth, no ears, sometimes a head of hair, most likely a hat of some sort. So when I see a mural or piece of art painted on a wall, side of…
Read more The Mural Of The Story – An 8Unassisted Photo Gallery of Wondrous Wall Art
I recently spent a week in Arkansas at a management training conference for the company I work for ArcBest (ABF Freight). It was the second trip to Arkansas in the past two months, as many of the corporation’s managers and supervisors (like myself) are just now catching on company training that Covid-19 short circuited. Classes…
Read more Afternoon Baseball at Baum-Walker Stadium for Arkansas vs Omaha
After Dougie Walsh pitched (perhaps) the worst game of his young baseball career, he hopped in his mom’s car with a giant scowl on his face. His mom asked him what happened out there today. Dougie shrugged and said, “I don’t know, I just couldn’t get a good feel for the baseball.” His mom asked…
While Rachel and I were away last week in North Carolina, my uncle Timmy (Walsh) passed away. My sister, my mother (his older sister), my Uncle James, my cousins, several friends all got to see Timmy before he passed away at his home on Sawyer Street in Wareham. The same home my mother grew up…
Read more How To Build The Timmy Plate – A Tribute to the late, great Tim Dog Walsh
Dougie Walsh was becoming a local folk hero of sorts. His recent heroics in nabbing or striking down a potential purse snatcher had garnered him a “Local Hero” medal from the Mayor. Friends and even strangers wanted to see how good Dougie’s aim was in other arenas, so they set out to discover just that.…
Read more The Boy Who Threw Strikes – Making Friends and Winning Prizes
At the tail end of March, I traveled to Fort Smith, Arkansas for another week of management training. Four days of meetings, guest speakers on topics like health initiatives, conflict resolution, critical thinking and more related to my position as a supervisor in a busy trucking company – ABF Freight. Prior to my arrival in…
Read more The Billboard Says It All – Thank You, North Carolina
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