It’s the last time that the number 42 will make an appearance in an All-Star Game (ASG). It’s the last year that the number 42 will ever appear in a game. And it’s going to be sad to say goodbye to the player that wears it. Mariano Rivera.
Author: Megan Filipowski
Baseball and Faith
The first knuckleball pitcher to ever win the Cy Young Award, R.A. Dickey poured out his life – every horrible detail and every amazing detail of it – in his book “Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball.” It was a book that was on my to-read list (which […]
On the Road to Indy
The summer between my sophomore and junior year at Spring Arbor, I found this internship with MLB.com (oh, what a dream!) and in the process, I found out about a Master’s of Sports Journalism program at IUPUI. As my junior year progressed, I applied for the internship and thought about the Master’s program. But continuing […]
Finn Butler
“Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water. And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home, and you have cried yourself to sleep enough times that you are down to your last two percent, but nothing is infinite, not […]
Will Herondale
“It was books that made me feel that perhaps I wasn’t completely alone.” Will Herondale
Edmund Lee
“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, bust most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.” Edmund Lee
Chuck Wendig
“There exists this moment before I edit where I feel completely overwhelmed. This is, quite literally, part of my process. I get this sense of literary vertigo, like I’m staring over the cliff’s edge into the crashing gears of some giant malevolent machine that I cannot comprehend and that I am sure will crush me […]
“Rose in Bloom,” Louisa May Alcott
“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.” Louisa May Alcott, “Rose in Bloom”
“The Wednesday Letters”
I recently started working out the YMCA just down the street from my house. I bike there everyday and work out on the equipment and then I bike home. Earlier on this week while I was there, I noticed they had a bunch of used books for sale. I perused the selection and ended up leaving the […]
JD Darkmatter
“Writing is the act of cutting yourself open, spilling your guts on the page and hoping someone looks at it and says ‘I know what you mean.’” JD Darkmatter