My Baseball Story Written by Aron Wallad
My Baseball StoryI love this game. It has been half century since I started to fall in love with baseball. The romance is still going strong. Playing, coaching, watching, listening, and reading about baseball has been part of my every day life sine I was 15 years old. Even in dead of winter when baseball is on back pages of newspaper I will find out what new development has occurred or who has been signed or traded. I want to write and read about all types of baseball stories that are inspiring. Why not? Isn’t being inspired a great way to live? Isn’t offering others an expression of what you love ultimate gift? I discovered my need to write and gather inspiring stories about baseball as I drove on route 80 in Northen New Jersey in February 2004. I started thinking about movies I have seen and stories I have read that I loved. Like The Lou Gehrig story Pride of Yankees. or stories about Babe Ruth. Why did I like these stories? What was “My” definition of a great story? I was fixed on finding an answer .I started thinking about movie Field of Dreams, one of my all time favorites. Why did I like this corny movie so much? Was Field of Dreams a metaphor for living out of your field of dreams? Was creating a clearing done to ALLOW dreams to show up? In movie they cleared away a crop of corn to build a baseball field. Do we need to clear away some of our own corn fields to see dreams that capture our hearts and then create a path to reach those dreams?
| | Quality Matters in Fly ReelsWritten by Brett Fogle
Like everything else in this world, quality matters when trout fishing. If all you will ever do is fish for small trout and pan fish, virtually any cheap fly reel will work just fine. In these situations, all a reel really does is to serve as a place to hold fly line. And even a cheap reel does this task ok.Unfortunately, this all changes once you get a large fish on other end of your fly line. If fly reel you are using is not well made with precision parts, line will come out with uneven tension or fly reel may seize up altogether. The reason cheap fly reels are inexpensive is because of what is inside them. Most cheap reels have cheapest types of parts that can be found. These parts break when least desirable and wear out very quickly. Remember, a fly reel has moving parts inside it. A cheap fly reel will quickly begin to wear out, often only after a year or two of moderate fishing. And it can fail miserably if you get a large fish on end of line. A high quality fly reel will truly last a lifetime. A good quality fly reel, while it may not last a lifetime, will last many, many years and will provide reliable duty in field. A very high quality fly reel will run around two hundred dollars or more. A good quality fly reel will be in hundred-dollar range. A cheap fly reel will be less than fifty dollars. To me, at least, it makes sense to spend a little bit more now so that you don't end up having to buy another reel two years down road or to have a fishing trip ruined by malfunctioning gear.
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