Mary Beth Ellis, Author at Redleg Nation

Baseball Is Life: The Rules

03/24/2021

I am having to aunt as I have never aunted before. My entire clutch of nephews has forsaken baseball for lacrosse. This now means that I have been yanked from the solid West Side ground of crunchy parish backya... Read More...

Baseball Is Life: Under the Shadow

Mary Beth Ellis

03/17/2021

The shadow of the crucifix loomed over the altar and the steps leading to it. Last week, Fr. Mike Schmitz pointed to its origin, an image of Christ crucified suspended over the center of the building, and spoke... Read More...

Baseball Is Life: Buying The Farm

Mary Beth Ellis

07/24/2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Cincinnati Reds vs Chicago Cubs– September 17, 2019

Mary Beth Ellis

09/17/2019

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...

Author Mary Beth Ellis