Editor's note: Early this morning, you may have received a second edition of the newsletter we published Saturday, which focused on the Astros. The newsletter was sent in error. Alas, we are not Dansby Swanson nor Martín Maldonado!
During my sophomore year at Penn State, I wrote in a column for The Daily Collegian, which was published the day after Opening Day. It was ultimately about my relationship with my dad, and how baseball has always connected us. I was homesick and baseball-crazed.
Parts of the piece were clichéd, and there’s one sentence that makes no practical baseball sense—so it goes when you’re a green writer figuring things out at the college paper.