When Baseball Breaks Your Heart

When Baseball Breaks Your Heart: Baseball can break your heart. A season ends sooner than you hoped. An injury takes away the game you love.  A player gets cut.  A senior plays his final inning.  A team falls one game short.  A routine ground ball becomes the mistake you cannot stop replaying in your mind. […]

I Left It in the Last Inning

Baseball player wearing number 5 walks alone along the baseline of a sunlit field, holding his glove after the game, symbolizing leaving past mistakes behind.

I Left It in the Last Inning:   Baseball teaches you something fast — you can’t play this inning worried about the last one. You boot a ground ball. You strike out with runners on. You miss a sign. You hang a pitch. If you carry that mistake into the next inning, it beats you […]

Loved Before The First Pitch

Worn baseball cleats on infield dirt at sunset with laces forming the word love and the headline “Loved Before the First Pitch” for a Christian baseball devotion.

Loved Before the First Pitch:   If you love baseball, you know the feeling. You love the sound of the ball hitting the sweet spot. You love the dirt on your cleats. You love the grind of practice, the brotherhood of the dugout, the battle between the lines. Baseball isn’t casual for you. It costs […]