Baseball

What my son with Down syndrome taught me about baseball—and life

Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct 2022

ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. — We’re at Tropicana Field, my son and I, watching as Anthony Santander strikes out swinging to end the top of the fourth inning. He’s the 12th Oriole in a row to make an out. Drew Rasmussen is, at the moment, throwing a perfect game for the Tampa Bay Rays. It’s early, but another inning or two like this and things will be very interesting, indeed.

My son, Rich, has been my companion at a hundred or more of these Sunday matinee baseball games in the Trop over the years. He’s 53 years old. He’s a baseball fan. He has Down syndrome.

Field of Fantasies

Baseball Tales of the Strange and Supernatural

Rick Wilber, ed.

  1. Rick Wilber, Introduction
  2. Stephen King and Stewart O‘Nan, “A Face in the Crowd”
  3. Karen Joy Fowler, “The Further Adventures of the Invisible Man”
  4. T. Coraghessan Boyle, “The Hector Quesadilla Story”
  5. Kim Stanley Robinson, “Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars”
  6. Jack Kerouac, “Ronnie on the Mound”
  7. Wilbur Schramm, “My Kingdom for Jones”
  8. Louise Marley, “Diamond Girls”
  9. Valerie Sayers, “How to Read a Man”
  10. Gardner Dozois, “The Hanging Curve”
  11. John Kessel, “The Franchise”

Pages

Subscribe to Baseball