Broken Bats & Baseball
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In his blog Broken Bats Baseball and Things, fiction writer, poet, and die-hard Milwaukee Brewers fan Steve Myers writes about the Brewers and other baseball-related matters.
Broken Bats & Baseball
22h ago
outfields overgrown with weeds infield dirt barely a shadow of its old self kids kicking around soccer balls no talk of Mack Jones, Coco Laboy, Miguel Dilone and the long cast of Expos players. This year could have been different ..read more
Broken Bats & Baseball
6d ago
I could blame my mood on the 6th mass extinction, the latest rendition of the eons old destructive dance, this time attributed to human behavior spiking the loss of bio-diversity or I could blame it on the cyclical return of ..read more
Broken Bats & Baseball
1w ago
Crop Rotation Frank avoided neighborhoods with front lawns looking like pristine, crisscross MLB outfield grass. He remembered back in the day when faded chalk football lines and divots shared space with baseball diamonds and yellowing grass and it made him ..read more
Broken Bats & Baseball
2w ago
Beggars don’t bother me. In fact, I always keep some spare change in my pocket, a few quarters or dimes and drop them in the bowl because panhandling is a job like any other and their “thank you, god bless ..read more
Broken Bats & Baseball
3w ago
The wind. The damn wind. I hardly ever notice it, only when it exposes the parts of my body not covered with cotton or wool or fur or whatever my winter jacket is made of. It’s the drafts that kill ..read more
Broken Bats & Baseball
3w ago
“This might be the only shot you got” Mondah always sang spitfire fast or molasses slow but always the same words – “the only shot you got.” Mondah, sweet Mondah and the pig tails she refused to shed. Mom named ..read more
Broken Bats & Baseball
1M ago
The plastic tourist brochure was all that remained. Hermie had no one to blame but himself, stacking all those books on the floor of his makeshift bedroom under the local train station. No one knew he lived there so no ..read more
Broken Bats & Baseball
1M ago
Old Heine and Shoestring Annie, the Clopper, Missy Tee, and F-Glow all got hoodwinked into religious cults and Harry Teespring wondered if he grew up with God, if he might know how to deal with death better? Traditional mourning rituals ..read more
Broken Bats & Baseball
1M ago
pangs, still thinking about her, maybe like a freed prisoner terrified of the unknown and longing to return to prison for shelter, food, and companionship, but no, none of that, no more, because I remember university in Milwaukee. We had ..read more
Broken Bats & Baseball
1M ago
I never lit things on fire, but I do remember eyeing my mom’s match box collection with curiosity back when they were used as marketing tools for restaurants. Back then I bought baseball cards from Bear’s Pharmacy, lots of them ..read more