Early this year, Giacinta and I spent a week in Florida at my friend Tony Reynolds' holiday home. Tony took us to our first pro baseball game — the Tampa Bay Rays against the Texas Rangers. We were in good seats — directly behind the umpire — but I enviously watched the pro's with their big glass and their view unobstructed by the netting designed to stop catching a baseball in the face. And almost zero chance of catching a flyball.

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3 August 2009, originally published October 2004