Shortstop

I am writing this because I am not if I did before. My last year of baseball we were playing a doubleheader in Provo utah. Our shortstop got in a fight at the end of the first game after a hard slide. Wanting to avoid tension coach sat the shortstop for the second game. Not having a back up he asked me to play the position. I was good at a lot of things. I played outfield, pitched, 1st base and caught. So coach put me in and I promptly made three errors in three innings. When I came back in to the dugout he said “I think we sound the one thing you aren’t good at” to this day thirty one years later it still bugs me I didn’t do better in one meanfiless throw away game. I hate when a challenge comes up and I fail. Like California. I wanted to be rich successful. Be a good employee. Have a nice house and care for my daughter. But trying to have it all was foolish. I failed. California was me trying to play shortstop

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