This is a pencil drawing of a baseball. Two arched lines run vertically along the ball parallel with each other. The ball’s stitching runs along these lines. There is a dark shadow beneath a portion of the left side of the ball. The ball also has dark and light lines trailing off its left side to indicate it’s in mid flight, as if someone has thrown the ball toward the right edge of the image. These lines, along with the ball itself, are slightly blurred to show how fast the ball is moving.

The fastball

A ballpark proverb about the dirtiest pitch life can throw and the adjustments we make to get a hit. Read 1013 walk-off words on The Davis Daily.