TUPATALK: Even in ashes hopes of youth survive
(WorldNews Sport)

I had to chuckle a bit a few weeks ago when I read how a pro ballplayer attempted in a hotel room to keep his skills sharp by throwing baseballs into his mattress. Perhaps I should sue for dream piracy. Not having grown up playing sports — we moved too much for me to do so — my ambitions to be a great athlete didn`t begin to materialize until my teenage years. I went the whole route in the fertile playground known as imagination — I struck out 20 batters to win a World Series game, I busted through defensive lines...