| My
best baseball ancedote concerning baseball stems from the fact that I always
was a pitcher, from little league through High School . I used to emulate the
wind up of so many different pitchers in wiffle ball games, that I brought
that home with me and used to "wind up" while talking to my
relatives when they visited. Anyway, I hated softball as I got older and
tried to recapture my youth at the ripe age of 30 by joining the U.S. mens
over 30 hardball league about 10 yrs. ago. To make a long story short, I
snapped my arm (humerous) just like Dave Dravecky, John Smiley, and Tom
Browning did while throwing an overhand curveball that i was taught by a
minor leaguer years ago. needless to say, the doctors did not know exactly
how to treat a "spiral fracture of the distal humerous" since most
of the time the humerous is broken only through landing or something falling
on it. The University of Georgia did a survey of my case because it seems
that by that year there were only 14 known cases of a Spiral fracture of the
humerous. Obviously I was out of work for about 5-6 months as I work in the
supermarket industry. The story is actually funnier in the "long"
version, but It changed my life in
ways, and even though i never risked playing again(financially), I own a
catchers mitt and have frequent catches with friends of mine. |
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