James Oshea

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“World's Greatest Scorekeeper” by James Oshea

Submitted to Contest #199

World’s Greatest Scorekeeper If life were a baseball game, the story I’m about to tell would begin somewhere in the third inning. The summer of 1977 to be more precise, and near the end of a challenging decade for my hometown team—the St. Louis Cardinals. The dismal times were hard on the average fan but not me, because that mediocre stretch of baseball was the reason I met my best friend, Jake. Jacob Elias Mitchell was an elderly gentleman back in 1977, and would’ve been easy to pick out of a crowd thanks to the bright white shock of hai...

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