Roberta Umor, Yuma Sun May 19, 2018: Yuma, AZ — For the second time in two weeks, riots broke out in Yuma, Arizona. Last week, fans took to the streets when the Bulldozers, traditional residents of the Sovereign League basement, surged into first place. This week, the rioting was apparently caused by the Dozers […]
Roberta Umor, Yuma Sun May 7, 2018: Yuma, AZ — Late last night, riots broke out in Yuma, Arizona. The last time Yuma experienced rioting in the streets was six years ago when the Yuma Bulldozers began their long slump into hell, losing their first six home games and eventually setting a PEBA […]
Part Four: Done Deal The next afternoon he snuck off to the men’s room to make the call. “Dan? Are they gonna part with Ito?” “I don’t know,” the voice on the other end of his stolen phone said. “They’re diddling me around. First they’re interested in Johnson AND Ortega, then […]
Part Three: His Nurse & Her Secret “How you holding on?” “Tip top,” he said, “couldn’t be better, top of the mark, happy as a clam, in the pink of health, mind never clearer.” “That bad?” “It’s killing me. If I could tunnel my way out like in those […]
Part Two: The Thief He was in his room, rearranging his baseball cards, when the call came. The day nurse, the one he chatted up every afternoon, came to tell him. “You have a call.” He looked at her. They both knew the rules about phone calls. He waited for her to make the first […]
Part One: The Phone He tiptoed down the long sloping hallway of the Men’s Ward toward the Staff Room. His bare feet seemed to make the cement floor moan, his every breath screamed in the night. A mental hospital at the darkest hour of the night is no place for a subplot to emerge. But […]
Written by Pam Postema, Asst. to Yuma GM September 30, 2014: Kivalina, AK — Though the sun is still shining more than 11 hours a day, darkness has fallen on the tiny burg of Kivalina. Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright… Residents of villages in Barrow and Kivalina, […]
by Pam Postema, Asst. to Yuma GM September 24, 2014: Kivalina, AK — The upstart Bowheads from Kivalina swept their two-game series with the Akutan Island Eagles behind the young arms of the Bowheads pitching staff. Especially impressive was the performance of the heretofore-unknown 20-year-old left hander Alonso Rodríguez, who allowed the Eagles just three […]
by Pam Postema, Asst. to Yuma GM September 22, 2014: Kivalina, AK — Once before, in 2011, the Kivalina Bowheads played in the Surf and Snow Amalgamation playoffs. They lost. No one in Kivalina noticed. The residents were embroiled in a legal battle with major oil companies over the rising seas that threatened to swallow the […]
by Pam Postema, Asst. to Yuma GM September 15, 2014 “Who is that guy?” No one recognized him. The stranger disappeared into the bowels of the ballpark. “Prob’ly just some fan from Angoon,” Police Chief Galen Swan suggested. “They sent fans all the way here just for a ballgame?” Frances Swan, secretary and treasurer of […]