Dave Dravecky pitched for the San Francisco Giants baseball team in the 1980s. In 1988 doctors discovered a tumour in his pitching arm, and in 1991 his arm had to be amputated. In his book When You Can\u2019t Come Back,<\/i> he writes about his sense of loss. <\/p>\n
\u2018I miss doing things with my own two hands, and\u2014of course\u2014I really miss baseball. There\u2019s a scene in the movie Field of Dreams<\/i> where Shoeless Joe Jackson\u2014one of the eight Chicago White Sox players banned from baseball for conspiring to lose the 1919 World Series\u2014said, \u201cGetting thrown out of baseball was like having part of me amputated. I\u2019d wake up in the night with the smell of the baseball park in my nose and the cool of the grass on my feet. Man, I did love this game. I\u2019d have played for food money\u2026 The sounds\u2014the smells. I\u2019d have played for nuthin\u2019.\u201d\u2019 Dravecky continues, \u2018That scene had a powerful effect on me. I missed those feelings too. The feeling of stitched seams as you cradle a new ball in your hand\u2026 the sound of a bat cracking out a base hit. I\u2019d<\/i> have played for food money. I\u2019d<\/i> have played for nuthin\u2019.\u2019 <\/p>\n
We live in a fallen world where we lose limbs and lose loved ones. But Heaven will make up for all we\u2019ve lost. We\u2019ll be reunited with our redeemed loved ones, and we\u2019ll have bodies free from sickness, pain, and every form of limitation. \u2018There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.\u2019<\/i> One day you\u2019ll live in your dream house!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dave Dravecky pitched for the San Francisco Giants baseball team in the 1980s. In 1988 doctors discovered a tumour in his pitching arm, and in 1991 his arm had to be amputated. In his book When You Can\u2019t Come Back, he writes about his sense of loss. \u2018I miss doing things with my own two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}