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The Death Row All Stars had serious incentive to play baseball at Wyoming’s Crossbar Hotel. If they won they were given stays of execution. I would like to have seen them play. I like baseball, especially the Kansas City Royals, but it’s not as exciting as football. Just saying.

Truth be told, baseball is slower than Joe Biden trying to master trigonometry. Many people think baseball is a metaphor for life. What I want to know is whose life are they talking about? Last time I checked, life didn’t seem to last for an eternity. Life is short; baseball goes on forever.

Let’s face it, not much happens in baseball. Abner Doubleday gets credited with inventing the game, but Harold Pinter was the one who did punch up. The only thing worse than a bad baseball game is realizing that you have to stay until everybody leaves because you can’t remember where you parked.

Now football, that’s fast paced and probably why it’s replaced baseball as the number one pastime. I have one suggestion for baseball if they want to get back into the hunt. There’s a lot of unused space in the alley between right and center field. Why not have a football game going on out there to keep the fans occupied during some of the longer lulls in the baseball game.

There were very few lulls in a game in which the Death Row All Stars played. Even in practices, the Death Row All Stars played with gusto and even temperament. They worked together as one cohesive unit and made the sport look like the easiest game in the world. They seemed to cherish the smell of the leather glove, the snap of the ball smacking their palms, the sensation of letting loose a throw and kicking up a cloud of dust.

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The Death Row All Stars: A Story of Baseball, Corruption, and Murder