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Rob Bergman

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Playing Catch

Rob Bergman

Submitted to Contest #261

Playing CatchAs American as the Fourth of July and mom’s apple pie is the action of playing catch.I recently bought a new glove. My old mitt is 35 years old at least, and when I took my son to purchase baseball pants for the upcoming season, for the first time ever, I stopped and tried on new gloves. I never felt the need before. My old trusty Rawlings Dale Murphy model fit my hand like a second skin. Every worn spot from the finger hole to the pocket, felt and smelt like home. The padding had worn out long ago, but my heat pen-branded initi...

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