Greetings, dear readers and my Purple Row colleagues. Rather than launching one of the innumerable adjectives I could use to describe the level of stoke I feel to be here, suffice it to say, I’m amazed. It’s almost as if my girlhood dreams of being an actual baseball player have come true. Of course, at this point in my life, ball players are retired, but the thing I can actually do — write — has led me to the realization of another, far more achievable dream; that of writing about baseball. And specifically, about a team I follow with a devotion that has me glued to the tube countless summer evenings.