It depends on who is playing. If you're playing a club that's used to the game it could be 4-6, 8-7. If it's a less experienced team it could be a wider margin. Historically the scores were 55-56. They haven't come up with any conclusion why.

The enjoyment of the game, the glory of the game, sir. Yes, we'd like to win, but if we don't that's OK. Baseball started as a method of exercise for workers and it became competitive later.

Many people are drawn to this game. We were the first club in Illinois, and now there are close to eight.

One of the things most people have commented on is sportsmanship. You do not demean or jeer any of the opposing players. It seems unbelievable at this age that if a good play is made that everyone congratulates that player.

Christians can have doubts and they can have questions, and the unhealthy way to deal with that is to keep them inside where they fester and grow and can undermine our faith. The healthy way to deal with it is to talk about it and be honest about it.

Creative non-fiction is such a liberating genre because it allows the non-fiction writer, whether he or she be journalist or essayist, to use all of the techniques of the fiction writer and all of the ideas, creative approaches, that fiction writers get a chance to use, but they have to use it in a true story.