Frances Ferry, NLN baseball beat writer December 24, 2034: Bani, Dominican Republic – It is not every PEBA star who can claim he began his professional baseball career in the League of the Rising Sun in 2007, appear in 126 games and two All-Star games for The Team That Shan’t Be Named – complete with […]
Frances Ferry, NLN baseball beat writer December 23, 2034: Pullman, Washington – They called him ‘Sleepy’, for he always had that look – eyes kind of droopy, body language slouched, but when Nolan Kuhn took the mound he was anything but Sleepy, with a blazing fastball that kept batters on their toes with his penchant […]
November 16, 2034: San Francisco, California – The Presidential Suite, 9th floor, Palace Hotel Will Topham stared at his phone searching for an answer that wasn’t coming to the rescue. He had texted his sister two hours ago and had no return text or call. ‘This is serious, doesn’t she get that? No doubt at […]
by Calliphora vicina, the common blow fly Upon a late-November night by The Bay… Water, splashing through the air, landed upon a pair of common blow flies, Calliphora vicina, that were minding their own business – minding if we may anthropomorphize the behaviors of insects who have no ability to mind. Instinct settled in and […]
by Francis Ferry, NLN baseball beat writer November 16, 2034: San Francisco, California – The Borealis wandered through the 2034 season ownerless – first their owner missing – last seen embarking along the Appalachian Trail with George Crocker, and by mid-summer with the confirmation of Michael Topham’s death on the 24th of August. GM Will […]
Aurora Owner’s Body Found by Francis Ferry, NLN baseball beat writer August 24, 2034: Rouzerville, Pennsylvania – The Pennsylvania State Troopers office and the FBI have confirmed that a body found along the Appalachian trail was indeed that of Aurora Borealis owner Michael Topham, Jr. The FBI released a statement earlier in the day, identifying […]
Reflections in the mind of George Crocker… December 27, 2033 George Crocker begged. He pleaded. He told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But in the sheriff’s office in Damascus, Virginia, they did not believe him. ‘Dirty cops – all of them. How could they think that I, George Crocker, could […]
Reflections in the mind of George Crocker… December 23, 2033 ‘They want you to kill me’, that was what Michael Topham, Jr said to George Crocker as they prepared to hit the Watauga Lake trailhead and begin the next leg of Crocker’s Appalachian Trail sojourn. If there were words to come out of Junior’s mouth that […]
by Francis Ferry, NLN baseball beat writer June 6, 2034: Asheville, North Carolina – There is always the risk. Trade your picks in a playoff push, and maybe you strike gold. Or, it’s a bomb and one is left with the fall-out. For the Aurora Borealis, the 2033 post-season push – that ended with a […]
by Francis Ferry, NLN baseball beat writer February 27, 2034: Grand Junction, Colorado – Spring Training has begun and as is the case each year, there is hope for those who dream of a future in the big leagues and there is the dashing of those dreams when the talent doesn’t quite match said dreams. […]
