This occurred way back in my college days. I was a walk-on to the baseball team at a large university. Many of my high school teammates had scholarships to Div II and Div III schools. But, most of those schools were teacher colleges. Not my forte. I had planned on becoming a prosecutor, so I picked a large university with a law school. Early in the Fall of my Freshman year, I ventured by the field where the Fall tryouts f...

This happened between my Sophomore year and Junior year of college. I grew up in a small town. I played soccer, basketball, and baseball in HS. Baseball was my best sport and the story Pinch Hitter has some background on my college baseball shenanigans. Anyway, in the summers, while in college I worked at the local grocery store in the community where I went to high school. A girl, Lynda, and her Mom, Donna, frequented th...

Fall Baseball practice started about two weeks before school started. Before I headed back to campus, Donna and I talked about her meeting me at school. We decided it might be best for her to visit over the Labor Day weekend since I had no practice and she would have an extra day off from work. We both felt like she would be more comfortable if she stayed about a half hour from campus. So, we looked at a road map, and we...

This story is the third part of a series. The first two stories are the Summer Fling and Donna’s Campus Visit. A fourth story, Pinch Hitter also provides a good background for this story. It was the Halloween weekend of my junior year at the largest university in PA. This meant parties galore on Saturday night. If I played my cards right, there would be horny drunk coeds looking for the same thing I was looking for, fast...

The week before Thanksgiving break was a blur. Classes ran until Wednesday morning. Fortunately, Fall baseball practice was light that week, with no practice on Wednesday through the following Tuesday. The Monday after Thanksgiving in Pennsylvania is a State Holiday. So, all state-sponsored schools, elementary through colleges, incorporate that Monday into the Thanksgiving breaks. The holiday is for the first day of deer...

The first semester of my Junior year was wrapping up. Christmas break was a week away. Because it is finals week, there was no baseball practice. Practice won’t resume until we return to school in mid-January. So, it was time to make plans for my break back home. As this was 1980, there were no cellphones to just shoot texts. There were no emails. There were no computers to create spreadsheets. Scheduling things required...

A week after returning to school from Christmas break, I called Donna to see if she had recovered from the bronchitis that kept us from meeting a second time over my break. She said that she was finally feeling better and that she was sorry that we could not get together again on the second half of my break. She asked if I was coming home before I took off to Florida for the college baseball Spring Training season. When I...