One-hundred Twenty-seven Feet

Van Gorder, Dave, major league baseball player, catcher for the Cincinnati Reds. Among his talents, throwing a runner out attempting to steal second.

Picture this: Sunday afternoon, “Hey, Keith let’s play catch.”

“Sure!”

Tosses me the hardball and heads east, I head west… turned and what the? He had to be more that a hundred feet away. Accessing my athletic talent tossed the ball and watched it float, barely making it all the way.

It came back, on a straight line!

For twenty minutes, I gave it my best.

For twenty minutes, I prayed the webbing would not fail me.