Three Wishes, Three Strikes
Lord, don’t let me end up like this. I was nineteen. Smokestacks coughing black into Ohio skies, shadows falling on the rock-strewn diamond where we played like smoky ghosts. Men trudged past, sooty and beaten down. Class A ball in the Yankee chain. Buses jolting through the night. Days in blazing sun. Motels reeking of […]