“The Yankees cannot lose.” “But I fear the Indians of Cleveland.” (“The Old Man and the Sea,” Ernest Hemingway, 1956) The Indians are my second favorite baseball team — and have been since I was a baseball-obsessed kid. I grew up next door to my five cousins. My cousin Charlie, the boy nearest in age to me, and I played a game in his ample back yard we called simply “tennis ball.” We inherited the game from his older brothers. It was just one on one, pitcher and hitter, wit … (read more)
