Memories of kickball evoke a kinder, gentler time in my life. The game takes me back to about third grade, growing up in Penrose and playing a friendly game during recess at school.
Baseball is a lyrical game. It's one of those artistic ironies that the only major sport without a clock should be so often immortalized in rhyme, where timing is everything.
Imagine the sound of a ball cracking off a bat, the cheers of the crowd and the smile on a child’s face as he scores a run. Then picture that child using a wheelchair or a walker, tapping a white cane or laboriously stepping across home plate.
LAKE ELSINORE — In close ballgames, a break here or there can change the outcome. Such was the case Thursday when High Desert took advantage of a Skip Adams error to score two unearned runs and hold on for a 3-2 win at The Diamond.
The Man In Black has ridden into the sunset. Just four months since his beloved wife, June Carter Cash, died of complications from heart surgery, American music legend Johnny Cash has died of respiratory failure associated with diabetes, according to a statement from Cash's manager, Lou Robin.