None of them were even close. I just wanted to see one over the plate. It's the first game. I wanted to get a hit.

I was excited and nervous at the same time. I changed my mind a couple of time before I finally got it cut.

We just went out and played our hardest. We just had to keep our energy up, though the game wasn't as emotional.

Movie directors who have filmed F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' believe it's a big book looming inside a small one, and they aren't altogether wrong.

Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true.

Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more.