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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 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: Lifeless, Half-Empty Stadiums

Mary Beth Ellis
10/20/2021
27
Our venerable elder, Chad Dotson, has succeeded in reminding me that baseball as it is isn't baseball as it used to be, and perhaps shouldn't always be as it is:   This is an exchange from Ted Lasso, and whil... Read More...

Baseball Is Life: Boys and Girls Like You and Me

Mary Beth Ellis
10/13/2021
22
Dissatisfaction is so high with the MLB in general and the Reds in particular that I wonder if a complete reboot of the sport is necessary. In the sense that it's not even the MLB. It's a bunch of chicks. A bun... Read More...

Baseball Is Life: Choose Your Solution Adventure

Mary Beth Ellis
10/06/2021
20
The 2021 Reds are now a matter for history. They are now yet another notch in these Between Championships years, a season in which we sift through the squish of collapsing lineups and point hopefully at the gem... Read More...

Baseball Is Life: What If the Ballast Leaves?

Mary Beth Ellis
09/29/2021
44
When we count the age of the Reds, we begin not from the moment of conception, but the moment of remuneration. And there's a reason for that.

Baseball Is Life: Don’t Sell the Team, Bob

Mary Beth Ellis
09/23/2021
73
#SellTheTeamBob started trending in the Tri-State area last night. Mary Beth Ellis doesn't think that should happen-- unless some conditions are met.

Baseball Is Life: The People You Meet At the Ball Park

Mary Beth Ellis
09/15/2021
6
DUDES WITH THE PAINTED CHESTS AND HORSE HEADS: Since these dudes usually reserve their energies for football games, to see them at a baseball game marks a special kind of fancam chaser. I don't recall seeing... Read More...

Baseball Is Life: Ready for the Party

Mary Beth Ellis
09/08/2021
6
"Are you doing all right?" asked the store clerk, one foot down the aisle the other pivoting my way. "First of all," I replied, "I'm pushing a grocery cart through a liquor store." Now most of us woul... Read More...

Baseball Is Life: What If We Just… Opened the Gates at GAPB?

Mary Beth Ellis
09/01/2021
12
"I want to go in the stadium," said my nephew. We were standing on the campus of the University of Florida. Now my direct experience with stadiums-- Notre Dame, Great American Ballpark, Riverbend, Riverfront, O... Read More...

Baseball Is Life: The First Day

Mary Beth Ellis
08/26/2021
4
In this season of assessment of trades-- my middle reliever for your third-string catcher--and playoff shifting, my thoughts turn, as always, to Devin Mesoraco. This was the All-Star catcher who reported to ... Read More...

Baseball is Life: Seeing

Mary Beth Ellis
08/18/2021
4
Some baseball games are written in what the crowd never sees.

Baseball Is Life: When the Team Tells the Time

Mary Beth Ellis
08/11/2021
8
In a season of disconnect from America's Pastime, it's a lovely way to still pass the time together.

Baseball Is Life: Blurred Lines

Mary Beth Ellis
08/04/2021
10
Unlike the arcs of soccer or basketball fields, which can be nightmares of geometry, the lines of baseball are straight and true. Lines used to bracket a baseball field, to create the boundaries of its being... Read More...
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