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From The Other Guys to The Irving Club or How I Became a Women's Softball Coach

  From The Other Guys to The Irving Club or How I Became a Women's Softball Coach Team Pic the season Kris joined  Front Row: Becky, Susan, Monica Middle Row: Colin, Lisa (above), Cindy, Michelle. Kris Back Row: Me, Mary, Darlene, Maureen, Amy, Bonnie Raitt, Ken. P laying with the other guys was a bit of a switch. Under Leon's tutelage, I had been well trained when and where to back up plays as a pitcher, particularly for throws coming in from the outfield. Unfortunately, some of my Other Guys teammates had obviously attended a somewhat different training program and as a result they often threw to one base while I was backing up another. After a few games it became clear to me that I just needed to back up where they were going to throw and not factor in where the base runners were going or might go.... I was having fun playing with The Other Guys for a season or so, when some of the women at the Rec Center, some of them girlfriends of the guys from the men's

From a Schefflera to an Other Guy

From a Schefflera to an Other Guy Reaching for the sky? No letting go of a pitch - What Form! H eidi and I were living in San Francisco together in the Richmond District. That meant that her friends became mine and mine hers. The thing is I have always tended to keep more to myself and keep or interact with only a few friends at any given time. I don't meet a lot of people or make new friends easily. So when I am in a relationship I often get new friends through my girlfriend, as my girlfriends tend to be more social than me. This was true with Heidi. I only had a few friends who actually lived in the city at this point, but just about all of Heidi's friends lived in the city. Heck she grew up there and always lived there except for the time she spent attending Chico State. We did things with some of her long time friends as well as her friends from The Recreation Center for the Handicapped (The Rec Center), where she worked. The Rec Center, a nonprofit organization