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Twenty
on Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:56

Bullies Prey and predators, it will be one or the other.             If you are weak you can be taken advantage of. Maybe it will be desserts handed over, money for the cantine, maybe clothes, maybe sex.             Brutal, mean, … Continue reading


Chapter 19 from the 2011 Baseball Season at San Quentin
on Fri, 30 May 2025 18:45

Our captains have fallen Red quit the team the first week in August, the second to last game I was with the team before my exit.             Not the easiest man to get along with, Red was one of the … Continue reading


Eighteen
on Fri, 23 May 2025 16:39

Convict mentality – the good, the bad, and the ugly A cliché I know, but it fits.             Some of the finest people I have ever known are convicts. I think of Chris Rich, who killed his wife with a … Continue reading


Chapter Seventeen of the 2011 Baseball Season at San Quentin
on Fri, 16 May 2025 20:44

Full blast-the rivalry What started it all? How did it get to this place?             I can only guess at what happened, but I think it goes back to 2004 when all the media attention began.[1] There were rumors that … Continue reading


Sixteen From the 2011 Baseball Season at San Quentin Prison
on Fri, 09 May 2025 17:04

Softball swing Prisoners play a lot of softball; few play baseball. The softball played is slow pitch where the ball is arced 6 to 9 feet in the air and the batter will use an exaggerated upper cut to hit … Continue reading


Chapter Nine
on Wed, 07 May 2025 17:08

Thinking About How Others Would Be Impacted If I Killed Myself My brother Gary’s suicide is still embedded in my mind, and I experience periods of regret to this day, which makes me very sad. I have to accept the … Continue reading


Fifteen
on Fri, 02 May 2025 23:49

The Con? Paul Newman, Robert Redford–The Sting, a con run by experts. “Con” comes from convict and cons run cons as a kind of sport. Prison is boring, among other things, and anything that concentrates the mind and provides some … Continue reading


Fourteen
on Fri, 25 Apr 2025 15:24

It was a tsunami Thursday, June 16 will be a hard day to forget, or remember. A new team was coming in called Tsunami, managed by Daniel Larson. Looking over the ages of the players I knew it was going … Continue reading


Chapter Eight
on Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:55

Here is the chapter from Why I Decided Not to Kill Myself Forgiveness: The Great Miracle Recently I wrote a book about how I had made “shipwreck” of my faith and my life, and this based on something the Apostle … Continue reading


Thirteen
on Sat, 19 Apr 2025 23:12

Johnny and Curtis “I played with the Astros in the seventies,” an old con told me, “And I can still throw the ball a hundred miles an hour.” “Number 8, that was my number when I was in the big … Continue reading