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Don and Petie Kladstrup in Almost Home

Apr 22, 2017

A Glove Affair — Part Two

Patience is not Don's long suit, so he fussed and fiddled while waiting to hear back from his brother about a glove repair person for his beloved Mickey Mantle glove. He tried a few more knots in the broken laces, then duct Tape, and finally even Super-Glu, to hold everything…

Don and Petie Kladstrup in Almost Home

Apr 19, 2017

A Glove Affair — Part One

Don had a problem: his glove. He’d had it since he was a freshman in high school and now the old Rawlings Mickey Mantle model was showing every wrinkle and creak of its 50 plus years.

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Don and Petie Kladstrup in Almost Home

Apr 5, 2017

Perishing Pershing

Paris is a city of monuments. From the Arc de Triomphe to the plaque on a building down the street, there is a monument for everything and everyone.

Don and Petie Kladstrup in Almost Home

Apr 29, 2017

Baseball in the Internment Camps

On the last Saturday in April, there is a pilgrimage to Manzanar, the site of one of the 10 camps where Americans locked up their fellow citizens during World War II. The “fellow citizens” were of Japanese ancestry and the US government, composed of other “fellow…

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Don and Petie Kladstrup in Almost Home

Apr 25, 2017

The Mouse That Scored

In my freshman year in high school, I began to realize how much baseball meant to me. It happened after the team’s main pitcher broke his big toe while horsing around in the locker room.

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