The Baseball Short Story Anthology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781937988371)

Connie Ragen Green is an online marketing strategist, bestselling author, international speaker, and mentor to people on six continents. She is a former classroom teacher, real estate broker, and residential appraiser who left it all behind to start an online business during 2006. This book came about as a result of a renewed friendship with a man I knew during the 1980s while he was living in the Los Angeles area. We had lost track of each other over the past three decades and were able to reconnect after a few searches on the internet. During one of our early phone conversations right after the first of the year in 2018, he asked me if I remembered going to a baseball game with him in 1985 between the Los Angeles Angels and the Toronto Blue Jays. I was sorry to have to tell him that I could not remember going to the game on that day so long ago. We then went on to talk about baseball and that's when I realized that he was a true fan, having been a part of this magical world since he was a small boy, playing the game and watching with family members and friends, and continuing to watch or attend as many games as possible up through the present day. I found myself becoming enthralled with his stories about his favorite team and of baseball in general and thought back to how baseball had played a part in my own life over the years. After some thought I announced to him at the beginning of March that I was committed to watching as many games as possible when the new season began at the end of that month. I'm sure my friend thought at the time it was a nice gesture, but that I would most likely grow weary of watching and discussing baseball within the first month or so. But I am a person of my word, and in the process of carving out time in my already extremely busy schedule I fell in love with the game of baseball, and in particular with my new favorite team, the New York Yankees.