At the very end of my baseball career, I was finally given the chance to be a Cardinal.
Not a St. Louis Cardinal...a Greenwich Cardinal.
Growing up in Greenwich, CT, it was always one of my most ardent dreams to pitch for the Greenwich High School Cardinals, and thereby have the chance to play with all of the baseball friends and teammates I grew up with.
That dream was dashed when my parents decided to send me off to Canterbury School, a private boarding school 60 miles to the north of Greenwich.
However, one summer while home from Boston College, I received a phone call from a good friend and fellow pitcher, Douggie D’Andrea.