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Author Mary Beth Ellis

Mary Beth Ellis

Proud aunt Mary Beth Ellis is a freelance writer and college teacher who lives in Cincinnati, OH. She is the hostess of the Monsters & Critics video podcast "Star Wars Thoughts and Prayers." Her first book, Drink to the Lasses, was published in 2006. Her second, a collection of essays about shadowing Ohio State's marching band, is underway.

Baseball Is Life: In Exile

Mary Beth Ellis
03/03/2021
20
I have not yet figured out what a baseball fan is supposed to do when her team doesn’t want her around anymore.

Baseball Is Life: Buying The Farm

Mary Beth Ellis
07/24/2020
5
Changes in the neighborhood: On the West Side of Cincinnati, the Angel of Death comes not with a scythe, but an outdoor sign letter changing pole.

Baseball Is Life: Shut Up

Mary Beth Ellis
07/18/2020
43
We've got baseball again. Well, hopefully. But let's not try to make it something that it's not - let it be what it is. We're all aware of this.

Baseball is Life: The Defiance of Normal

Mary Beth Ellis
03/18/2020
20
With the Coronavius dominating headlines and upending our lives, we need sports the most--and we must go without for a while. Trevor Bauer tried to help.

Baseball is Life: What to Do

Mary Beth Ellis
03/01/2020
12
Knowing what to do with a kid you love and shares your admiration of baseball and the Reds is 95% of the battle.

Baseball Is Life: Folk Song

Mary Beth Ellis
02/14/2020
25
Get you someone who looks at you the way I look at air molecules in the middle distance while Joey Votto is talking to Jim Day for ninety minutes.

Baseball Is Life: The New Lawn

Mary Beth Ellis
11/08/2019
13
A baseball game called for rain is a disappointment; a baseball game called for snow is an affront to the order of nature.

Baseball Is Life: On the Front Porch

Mary Beth Ellis
10/18/2019
15
Ladies and gentlemen, no more bets. No more bets, ladies and gentlemen. We have now achieved peak West Side: Your instinct might be to ask: "A set of four lawn chairs brought out into a driveway when the... Read More...

Baseball Is Life: Developed Over Lifetimes

Mary Beth Ellis
10/04/2019
10
In Cincinnati baseball, the threshold of true acceptance can't be forced, bought, or won. It's earned. 
Redleg Nation Game Thread Eugenio Suarez

Cincinnati Reds vs Chicago Cubs–September 18, 2019

Mary Beth Ellis
09/18/2019
The Cincinnati Reds, having won the season series against the Cubs, now try to take 2 of 3 in Chicago.
Redleg Nation Game Thread Joey Votto

Cincinnati Reds vs Chicago Cubs– September 17, 2019

Mary Beth Ellis
09/17/2019
18
Last night sucked and it sucked in all ways at all times because even though the Cubs pitcher sucked the Reds sucked even worse at getting runners across and I don't want to talk about it anymore. Except maybe ... Read More...
Redleg Nation Game Thread Joey Votto

Cincinnati Reds vs. Chicago Cubs–September 16, 2019

Mary Beth Ellis
09/16/2019
27
Remember how at the beginning of the season and then the midpoint of the season and right before everything went right in the toilet we thought this series would be pivotal and exciting and very necessary to pl... Read More...
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