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An email and a fastball: How fate and talent propelled Conor Grammes to Xavier University

It was an up and down season for Xavier basketball. Here's a look back and a look ahead to what's coming in 2019-2020 Adam Baum, abaum@enquirer.com

Fate can be a fickle thing – sometimes life can fall apart faster than a house made of playing cards, and other times, it can line up more beautifully than all the stars hanging in the night sky.

There’s an old quote attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, a 19th-century poet and philosopher, that says, “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.”

About five years ago, Conor Grammes sat down at his computer in McLean, Virginia, and email blasted college baseball coaches across the country in search of an opportunity.