August 2019

A Home Run – Part 2 Eighty years ago, July 4, 1939, Lou Gehrig approached the microphone before a sold-out crowd at Yankee Stadium to deliver what has been called, “baseball’s Gettysburg Address.” He was only 36 years old, but he was forced to retire due to a neuromuscular disease called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (A.L.S.). […]

A Home Run – Part One “Did that really happen?” I asked my four Uruguayan friends. It seemed like it was just yesterday that they were arriving at the Greenville Spartanburg Airport. Here we were packing their luggage into the van as we prepared to head to the airport for their return trip to Montevideo.