A Kind of Flying: Selected Stories
“So, not wanting to go back to Texas so soon and face my family, the disappointment and my father’s expectation that I’d go to work in his Allstate office, and not wanting to leave Polly alone in Florida in March, a woman who tended toward ball players, I was hanging out, feeling bad, and I was there when it happened.
My own career had been derailed by what they called “stage fright.” I was scared. Not in the field—I won a Golden Glove two years in college and in my rookie year with the Pira...tes. I love the field, but I had a little trouble at the plate. I could hit in the cage, in fact there were times when batting practice stopped so all the guys playing pepper could come over and bet how many I was going to put in the seats. It wasn’t the skill. In a game I’d walk from the on-deck circle to the batter’s box and I could feel my heart go through my throat. All those people focusing on one person in the park: me. I could feel my heart drumming in my face.MoreLess
My own career had been derailed by what they called “stage fright.” I was scared. Not in the field—I won a Golden Glove two years in college and in my rookie year with the Pira...tes. I love the field, but I had a little trouble at the plate. I could hit in the cage, in fact there were times when batting practice stopped so all the guys playing pepper could come over and bet how many I was going to put in the seats. It wasn’t the skill. In a game I’d walk from the on-deck circle to the batter’s box and I could feel my heart go through my throat. All those people focusing on one person in the park: me. I could feel my heart drumming in my face.MoreLess
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