Check out some images from the Bears scrimmage on 10/12! More essays one of these days, when I’m done writing a thesis on Alaska and can switch back and forth more easily. Baseball is nice to calm the mind, I…
Category: Missouri State
Oft repeated and ever true – there is no bad weather; only bad clothing, as the Norwegians say. The Danes say the key is happiness is low expectations. I found I managed the temperatures in the Arctic, at least when…
Here are some of my favorite horizontal images from the Missouri State exhibition on September 29, 2017. I’m experimenting with upping clarity on action photos. Looking forward to playing with shadows and light on these bright game days! See you…
After thinking I’d lost 45 pages of my thesis* in a computer glitch, I simply had to get away and check out the Bears play ball on a beautiful day at Hammons. *Thesis found. Bears win! Seriously. Free baseball. Go….
Behold – a few more photos of the Missouri State Bears vs. Drury University during the second Battle for Bell exhibition, an ALS fundraiser on September 23 in Ozark, MO. Check the Bears’ fall ball schedule and watch them at…
You remember Aaron Meyer. As a senior second baseman for Missouri State, he tore his patellar tendon running to first base last April. We’d never spoken, but I watched from behind home plate. Late that night I wrote one of my…
After the final out I stood in the dugout and watched TCU celebrate, keeping an eye out for a 6-foot horned frog hopping around the field. Kool and the Gang blared over the PA system, reminding me of dancing at…
Hunter Steinmetz tied the game at 1 with a solo home run – – but that was the final run the Bears scored all year. Unfortunately for them, TCU added seven and will continue to play. I’m still such a…
“You don’t have a photo well?” I repeated. “Sometimes a photographer can shoot from the dugout if the team is used to you,” a sports information assistant repeated. “Wait, like that section by the dugout?” I said and waved my…
Two days ago Missouri State coaches hit baseballs to their players, fielders taking grounders and catching fly balls on the warning track. The players wore maroon undershirts for the most part, though a handful had already added their ghastly Desert…