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…
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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…
All photos taken during Missouri Valley Conference Tournament May 24-28, 2017 Hammons Field, Springfield, MO Camera: Sony A6000; lens: 55-210mm by
I know that home run talk is like fishing tales, and I’ve got a thesis full of those. Still, last Friday afternoon I sat in the front row by the visitors dugout at Hammons Field. A fan behind me asked if…
The Missouri State game started 50 minutes late, a regular occurrence this weekend. I wandered around the concourse watching Indiana State beat Evansville, and wondered which players were dreaming of the draft next month. Who wouldn’t? Getting drafted, like getting married, seems to…
It was 20 degrees warmer and a bit more sunny today. Missouri State played Southern Illinois, and in the first inning batter Ryan Smith hit a home run to left center. Then Greg Lambert hit one. The next inning, Will Farmer…
We start at 11:03 p.m., like it’s June in Alaska and we can play under the midnight sun. Jake Burger taps the freshly painted plate, a half-hour after receiving the player of the year award. He walks. Illinois State is…
The concrete floor is covered in rainwater, but only the ground below the first row of green chairs. I sit anyway. The 7:30 p.m. start of Missouri State and Illinois State – for which I rushed through celebratory grilled cheese…
A frat boy chews on sunflower seeds, spitting the shells on the concrete floor as he watches an Indiana State batter jog back to the dugout, head down, after grounding out to second. I’m still thinking of Justin Paulsen. I…