On days like this, baseball would make Michael as happy as it ever did. No umpires. No coaches. No rules except the ones you made up.
I.mpossible.
Ten-thirty in the morning, being free,
Football,
For this one night, the less he cared, the more he made.
A family of three had become, in Michael Arroyo's young mind, an army of two.
The two of them shook hands the regular way. The old-school way.
If there are real angels in the world, Michael said to his brother, how come they're never around when we need them?
You can handle anything anybody throws at you,
It's a foul if he calls a foul.
The coach who yells at refs? I'm never gonna be that guy.
It's like they take poison and then hope for the other person to die.
What had him smiling was that Chris Conlan had called him his best friend.
If you don't take the shot...you'll never know whether it would have gone in or not.
I never look for help when I'm the one who loaded the bases.
You gotta be prepared for something, pal. No matter how much you think you're doing the right thing, life can still take a wrong turn on you.
The ones who tell you not to fight are the ones you should fear the most.
He imagined himself as a sprinter now, felt his arms and legs pumping, thought of the old Cuban sprinter his father used to tell him about.Juan something?No, no.Juantarena.Alberto Juantarena.His fathe...
Nick said. Failing at school, failing at baseball… The last part just came out, one last part of this he couldn’t stop if he’d tried: … failing at being your son. For the second time that day, Nick ra...
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