Mary Beth Ellis, Author at Redleg Nation

Baseball Is Life: When You Are Upside Down

04/10/2017

The death notice arrived as I stood, fittingly, in the women's hygiene aisle of the grocery store. And it was a death notice; this was a thing that was going to be gone, and, once gone, irretrievable. I hung... Read More...

Sean Casey, The Unbelievable Ukulele, and Rebirthing Baseball

Mary Beth Ellis

04/03/2017

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My city is a city in which we throw a parade on the first day of baseball season. Also that parade features a giant fiberglass rooster, one which is carefully slotted into a car wash bay so as to look its best ... Read More...

Baseball Is Life: A More Productive 2018

Mary Beth Ellis

01/01/2017

Most people make New Year’s resolutions, which means they’re going to add in positive actions or delete negative behaviors, which means they’re all going to be miserable by February if not sooner. It never work... Read More...

Redsfest Is Not Decadent and Depraved

Mary Beth Ellis

12/07/2016

I have only myself to blame, for this all began when I asked my sister to make me an aunt and specified the form of a nephew. She complied twelve years ago with my godson James, who grew in favor before God and... Read More...

Reds vs Brewers– August 13, 2016

Mary Beth Ellis

08/13/2016

Second game of trois against the Brewers. You get "three" in French because I remember a disturbing amount of what I learned of it in high school, which is not much, but exactly enough to be annoying ("Ou est l... Read More...

Reds vs Braves–July 20, 2016

Mary Beth Ellis

07/20/2016

GOOD MORNING AREN'T YOU SO, SO GLAD YOU STAYED UP FOR THE END OF THAT HIGHLY UPLIFTING GAME?!!!?!?!? YEAH! Here's the best news: Ã‚Â There's more coming! Ã‚Â Final game of three between Reds (35-59) and Braves... Read More...

Reds vs Padres–June 25, 2016

Mary Beth Ellis

06/25/2016

Today's titanic struggle is #3Ã‚Â of 4 against the Padres: The Quest to Keep the Other Team From Scoring in the Double Digits. REDS PADRES 1. Zack Cozart (SS) 2. Joey Votto (1B) 3. Brandon Phillips (2B) 4.... Read More...

The Most Difficult of Births

Mary Beth Ellis

06/18/2016

Yesterday I made a dropoff at the door of Good Samaritan Hospital, and saw a man trundling from the parking garage, holding a tiny outfit on a plastic hanger, tags dangling from the little arm. I had the follo... Read More...

Reds vs A’s– June 12, 2016

Mary Beth Ellis

06/12/2016

Today's 1:10 game between theÃ‚Â Reds (24-38) andÃ‚Â theÃ‚Â Athletics (25-36) completes a three-game series. Of which the Reds have won two. The Reds. Have won two. I'd take credit but I'm too tired to figure o... Read More...

Fly-By Hope

Mary Beth Ellis

05/01/2016

The dirty little secret of parades is that being in one consists of 95% waiting, and when the wind kicks in, you wonder why you ever came. I first learned this a couple of years ago when I shadowed Ohio State's... Read More...

The Art of the Broken Team

Mary Beth Ellis

08/16/2015

Without baseball, I would not exist. About eighty years ago, my grandfather was playing in a club baseball game in Fairmount. At some point he began backing towards the bleachers to catch a foul ball. He ... Read More...

Where Were You During the 2015 All Star Game?

Mary Beth Ellis

07/05/2015

In the last few steps before one of the entrances of Great American Ball Park, the five logos, engraved in slabs, spread out in a star shape-- one for each All Star Game played in Cincinnati.Ã‚Â They were adde... Read More...

Author Mary Beth Ellis