My wife and I watched a wonderful movie tonight, The Greatest Game Ever Played. We are both suckers for a movie about an underdog who makes good, especially when it is true story. This movie, whose climax happens in 1913, tells the unlikely story of Francis Ouimet, a former caddy at the country club located…
Sports
Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, Sports
Remembering
by William Meisheid
All over the United States this weekend, sports, while providing a diversion from some of the immediate problems facing this country, also embraced the historic in remembering the past and in its own way tried to offer a bit of hope for the future. It was an example of what is good and what is…
Sports
Opening Day And The End Of March Madness
by William Meisheid
Baseball has begun, so Spring is here. Today my Orioles won their opener against Oakland, 4-0, a team that swept them last year.
Culture & Social Issues, Personal, Sports
Red Sox Heaven
by William Meisheid
Red Sox 3 St. Louis 0. Rex Sox win series 4-0. Congratulations to the 2004 World Series winning Red Sox. Thank you Curt Shilling for your sterling Christian witness. Thank you Boston for winning eight post season games in a row while never trailing during the series and giving us one of the greatest runs…
Personal, Sports
Family And Baseball
by William Meisheid
This weekend marks the end of the regular baseball season and we are off the see the Orioles play the Red Sox. It is a combined family/church outing so I am looking forward to a relaxing evening (win or lose) with wife, daughter, and Christian friends. Baseball is slow enough to allow conversation without losing…