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- Title: For Real (Short Story)
- Author : Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 316 KB
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Whenever her daughter got up to bat, Marlene held her breath. There was usually a third grader doing jumping jacks in the outfield, Bobby LaTrobe's mother yelling to her son as he got ready to pitch, and lots of shuffling around in the dugout with all the Pineville Hospital team kids trying to see what would happen. All this was periphera. With her daughter's eyes focused and her breathing unsteady, Marlene could sense Annie's heart whooshing its own irregular exchange of "shush-ah, shush, shhhhh, sha-shush." Each time, the pitch seemed to hang cartoon-like in mid-air between ball and strike, waiting for the whim of the umpire, a nurse just off-duty. In those seconds, Marlene watched for the first sign of Annie's decision: to swing or to wait; to try or to pass; to inhale or to exhale; to will her heart to pump normally or to let the beat swing wildly into the erratic.