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Comfort Food for the Baseball Soul: Strat-O-Matic, Old Cards, New Friends,Heartbreak and Home Runs
There are certain smells that never really leave you. Fresh-cut grass. Old baseball cards that still have that bubble gum smell 50 years later. The faint electrical hum of a basement light that takes a second to warm up and never quite commits. A folding table with one leg shorter than the others, with duct tape on the edges. A faded and stained score sheet. Dice that have been rolled so many times they’ve lost their sharp edges much like the men rolling them. Basements matte

Mark Rosenman
Feb 49 min read
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