The faint rock and roll on a boom box. The whirl of a bathroom fan. The thwack of an aluminum bat on a rawhide ball. Car tires rippling over the gravel parking lot. A coach’s occasional lesson, grip, load, wait, go.
Young parents walk anxious early rising children. The balls arc back and forth, sometimes they’re caught, most of the time they bounce languidly to the chain-link fence. A water bottle bounces off the macadam. A man walks and listens to his speakerphone, like we all need to hear.
Saturday morning in Lovettsville, Va. Fall baseball.
King Tsunami drew into the fifth race at Delaware Park. The outside post from the turf chute. Angel Rodriguez, work your magic.
