I never thought I would do this, but here it is. I am entering the world of blogging, ever so reluctantly. I am writing from Prague, where I am currently representing the Kaunas Lituanica baseball team in the European Cupwinners' Cup Baseball competition. Basically, it is one of two European Baseball Championships held every summer. I came here with the Lithuanian team, along with two other Americans, on a bus crammed full with 30 people, a twenty-four hour ride from Kaunas, Lithuania, to Prague, Czech Republic. The story of this Lithuanian team at this tournament is the classic story of David and Goliath. In Lithuania they don't have enough baseballs to have a real practice, they don't even have a field with a fence or a proper baseball diamond, they practice on an old Soviet-area soccer
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