![]() ![]() He hadn’t really wanted to go to college, but he’d needed to put as much distance as he could between him and his trifling father, and his broken mother. if he could help it for the rest of his life. But he survived them, graduated from high school, and then packed all of his few belongings, including the old stack of Dodgers baseball cards his father had given him – some time before he’d left his wife and two kids for his secretary like the absolute piece of shit he was – and he vowed to never return to D.C. His family’s cross-country move to the Capitol precipitated the worst few years of his life. But after the move, all the things he’d once cared about felt like a million miles away and baseball became the least of his priorities. Which isn’t to say that he would have played ball professionally if they’d stayed in Texas. ![]() ![]() and whatever trajectory his life had been on shifted dramatically. At fourteen those seemed like all the skills he’d need to make it to the majors.īut then his father got a new job and moved their family to D.C. He was a solid pitcher, could catch a ball and had a pretty good eye for stealing bases, because he liked to show off. When Lane was a teenager, he thought he’d be a baseball player. ![]()
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