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The night before, we laid out theuniform. The white pants, the socksand shirt, and the hat the color of arubber ducky.
The mitt, nearly sacramental, wasplaced on top. The final offering, itseemed, to the patron saints of base-ball, the ones whose job it was, you’dthink, to look down on little diamondsdotted all across America, and makesure no hearts were broken. Not need-
lessly, anyway.But when it comes
to baseball andhearts, the sound ofcracking hardlycomes from batsalone, biting intoleather-bound balls.
That’s prettymuch the way itwent the other Sun-day, when the teamknown as thePlumbers took thefield. It was the
opening game of the season, in theleague the little kids look up to, thefirst one where you get to don thecatcher’s garb, and kids, not coaches,pitch.
What happened was, like so much oflife, lopsided. One team was made upof little squirts, 2nd graders new atbaseball and pitching and hittingwithout a tee, and the other team was,well, old hands. And huge, by theway—3rd graders who’d been aroundthe bases plenty of times. Before theteams took to the grass and mounds,even a mope like me could tell thatsomehow something was off-base.
Right off, the other team’s twocoaches gunned for steals and extrabases. Relentlessly. Racing runnerafter runner ’round to third, thenhome. A kid would hit, and the Plumb-ers would fumble for the ball, chase ithalf a mile. All the while, the coachesspun their arms around like somecockeyed windmill, fanning in anotherrun.
Didn’t take long for the little ones toassume a dazed sort of expression.
Ten runs scored against them in thefirst inning.
Then the little guys got a turn. Three
up, three down.Pretty soon the score was 20 to noth-
ing.An inning later, we lost count. But
the kids on the other team would bel-low out the score from time to time, apathetic count that rose—on one sideonly—like mercury on a steamy Au-gust day.
“It’s 35 to zero,” one kid called out.I couldn’t help myself. It was time to
politely make a point.“How about some humility,” I men-
tioned to no one in particular. I gotpoked in the ribs by the fellow sittingnext to me. He told me to cool it. And Iguess, because he’s the man I married,he was trying to keep me safe.
The worst part, though, came hourslater. My Plumber couldn’t fall asleep.
“We lost by 43,” he said. “That’salmost half a hundred,” he added.
Just the night before, it had been allthe home runs in his head that keptthis would-be catcher-slash-center-fielder awake. He heard the crowdroaring. Imagined the coach handinghim the mini-plunger that, each out-ing, goes to the Plumber-of-the-game.
And now, one game later, he’d seenthe way it could be: Coaches taking onthe task as if a win, at any cost, was allthat mattered. Or maybe it was just acold hard fact of the ball field that islife: You’ll get creamed sometimes, no
matter how hard you try, and the oneswho cream you won’t look back. Justkick up clouds of sand, sliding intohome. He was mad and sad and thor-oughly confused: Baseball was a gamehe loved. A game he watched at night,lying beside his father. A game he readabout every morning, slurping statis-tics along with Frosted Flakes.
And now, because of baseball, he felt,he said, like someone put their base-ball cleat where his heart goes thump,and then, with all their might,clomped on it.
He wasn’t giving up, mind you. Justporing over pages in the play book,trying to figure out the game.
And so am I.Is this the raging stream into which
I’ve tossed my child? Should I leap andpull him to the shore? Or do I sit andpray and trust he’ll find his stroke, andbe all the stronger for the lessonslearned where the current slows for noone?
For now, all I know is this: When Iwalked in that night, to kiss him onelast time, his cheek was wet. He’d criedhimself to sleep.
A version of this essay originally ap-peared on Mahany’s Web site, pullupachair.org.
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Bad day at diamond leavesLittle Leaguer in the rough
BarbaraMahany
CAROLYN KASTER/AP PHOTO
FOR MONDAY, JUNE 8, 2009
RICK MORRISSEY
Carlos Zambranocould never walkaway from baseball.SPORTS
JON HILKEVITCH
GPS technologycould save airlinestons of fuel.CHICAGOLAND
This serviceman ispreparing for battle—not marriage.ASK AMY, LIVE!
AMY DICKINSON
While interesting nuggets of in-formation can be found in well-knowngovernment publications like the Sta-tistical Abstract of the United Statesand the Congressional Record, fewperiodicals that Uncle Sam puts out areas consistently fascinating as the DrugEnforcement Administration’s Micro-gram Bulletin.
The monthly newsletter, which isavailable online, highlights unusualdrug seizures nationwide, alerting lawenforcement and lab specialists of thenovel ways traffickers are hiding ormanufacturing their illegal wares.
In the past four issues, such seizureshave included churros stuffed with
plastic-wrapped packages of cocaine;grape-flavored meth; a teddy bearclutching a pink heart and stuffed withmarijuana; and a reclining angel stat-ue filled with cocaine.
Among the many trivia from thenewsletter is the apparent fascinationEcstasy peddlers across the countryhave with cartoon characters. Pillswith the image of Bart Simpson,Garfield and Transformers—bothAutobots and Decepticons—have allbeen submitted to labs.
Cocaine has been found inside aukulele, engine pistons and evenwicker baskets (the latter uncovered atthe Houston airport). Last year, the
Chicago lab encountered football-sizedfake rocks filled with cocaine. Heroinhas been found inside plastic capsulesthat looked like kidney beans, inside aflat-screen TV that powered on butdidn’t show a picture and even insidefunctioning perfume spray bottles.
“It’s anything that’s out of the ordi-nary,” said DEA spokesman MichaelSanders. “In the earlier Microgramswe used to see cocaine ... pressed intohollowed-out two-by-fours.”
“We’re just letting people in lawenforcement know the different meanspeople are using.”
—Steve Schmadeke
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