tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post6856566076167707284..comments2024-03-24T19:55:32.537-05:00Comments on The View from This Seat: Play Ball!LKSeathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-86846762193815783802012-04-05T22:07:34.866-05:002012-04-05T22:07:34.866-05:00One baseball memory outshines the rest for me. Whe...One baseball memory outshines the rest for me. When our eldest child was just a few months old, we had him sitting in a baby seat with us while we watched a movie on TV. At a commercial we changed channels to see how the Royals were doing. Larry Gura was pitching. We found the score, and went back to the movie. Except, the movie was not acceptable. There was no peace in Dempsey Land until we turned the channel back to baseball. Our family's number one baseball fan was born! <br /><br />His brother played soccer, his sister played basketball, but thirty years later he's still baseball through and through. Maybe it was that middle name, Speaker, which, my wife tells me, among other things, links him to a distant relative, one Tris Speaker. Well, I know he is also a Dempsey, because, on occasion, he will also play croquet!Craig Dempseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00033176451913108084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-88051053599978867072012-04-05T10:53:18.251-05:002012-04-05T10:53:18.251-05:00I'd say the value of baseball in this country ...I'd say the value of baseball in this country does not lie in the major leagues, but on the little league fields across the country where boys and girls learn a past-time they may carry with them throughout their lives. They also learn skills, technique, fair play, discipline and working at something bigger than themselves...something they can't do alone.<br /><br />Each baseball season begins with my own memories of the ball field in Farley, Mo., where I learned to play the game. My first baseball coach died last Friday and I've thought a lot about him the past several days. He was a great example to me...he did what he said, never played favorites even though his son was on the team, never lost his temper, he was always positive and reinforced the idea to work hard because we could always be better than we were at that moment.<br /><br />In these memories and what I took with me into my adult life are where I find the joy of baseball. I'm now coaching my son's team trying to instill this same joy in him.David M. Fulknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-65640578092195145602012-04-05T09:21:00.605-05:002012-04-05T09:21:00.605-05:00Thanks, Tim and Leroy, for reminding me about all ...Thanks, Tim and Leroy, for reminding me about all the good features of baseball. As a young boy growing up in Kansas City, one of my proudest moments was getting my own baseball uniform and cap for our little league church team. I am old enough to remember going to see the KC Blues before the A's and Royals. Baseball seems like such a "civilized" game with minimal physical contact and maximal focus on hustle (in the good sense).Pip Rhoadshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05949840977134345709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-14122332088648007102012-04-05T08:41:55.144-05:002012-04-05T08:41:55.144-05:00Baseball is one of the interesting sports not play...Baseball is one of the interesting sports not played on a field, court, or rink with two ends - also curling, sumo, cricket, golf, clays, etc. - but baseball in particular. I enjoy these sports because they ARE different, and this one is so American (in no way a put down to the Japanese and others who also enjoy the sport).<br /><br />Memories take me back to the Kansas City Athletics (A's) and the early days of the Royals down at Municipal Stadium, which had a small town feel like Wrigley Field. There were the old name players like Ed Kirkpatrick, Cookie Rojas, Freddy Patek, and Bob Johnson, who treated baseball as athletes rather than bottom-line professions. Would that I could have seen the Kansas City Monarchs play.<br /><br />April 13 is opening day at home for the Royals - always a fun day, win or lose. It is also Greater Kansas City Day with a special edition of the Kansas City Star sold in bundles or street corners in honor of the Royals opening day, but to support local charities - 100% of proceeds I believe. A big chunk will go to support the Rotary Youth Camp out on the shores of Lake Jacomo. The camp is designed to provide a local camping opportunity, at no cost, to those who are developmentally and physically disabled in collaboration with several local nonprofit organizations. Having served as a Camp Director with one of those organizations for 4 years at the camp, let me encourage each of you to buy a paper (or a bundle) that day. <br />Special thanks to the Kansas City Star, the Kansas City metro Rotary clubs, and the Kansas City Royals for making this a fun day for the community, and a good support for local nonprofit charities.Tim Laffoonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-39031922218608101932012-04-05T07:28:19.072-05:002012-04-05T07:28:19.072-05:00Here is an online dictionary definition:
n. 1.(Ba...Here is an online dictionary definition:<br /><br />n. 1.(Baseball) a baseball pitch thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball; - called also change-up.LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-40681785583475268742012-04-05T06:51:45.039-05:002012-04-05T06:51:45.039-05:00Is "change of pace" really a phrase from...Is "change of pace" really a phrase from baseball?Anton Jacobshttp://www.antonkjacobs.comnoreply@blogger.com