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<p>Game producers Ellyn Angelotti, Ira Spitzer and Natalie Flanzer are spending their summers covering youth baseball and softball in Lawrence. Who are they, and what's really going on behind the scenes? Read their thoughts, observations and more in Inside the Game.</p>
June 20, 2005
Back in Kansas
I'm sitting in a cramped airline seat on the way to Miami via Houston to celebrate my friend Josh's upcoming wedding.Cruising at 26,000 feet, I realized something: A couple days after arriving in Lawrence less than a week ago, it felt like I'd never left at all.
July 23, 2004
Leaving Lawrence
Summer is slowly coming to an end. The local baseball and softball leagues are finished for the season, players and their families are squeezing in one last vacation before school starts, and I am hitting the road to go back to California in a few days.
July 8, 2004
Where am I anyway?
I don't think I'd ever once in my life imagined finding myself in Kansas for any length of time. Caracas, Anchorage, Beijing, maybe, but not Lawrence, Kansas.
June 28, 2004
Is it all about winning?
Sports without competition is like cake no icing. It feels like something's missing. That's the way I learned things anyway growing up anyway.
June 21, 2004
Not your ordinary Fathers Day
The fact that Jay Rusk's 14-U softball team took the field Saturday night at the American Fastpitch Association's B-division national qualifier tournament was inspirational in itself. What was even more moving was the fact that Kenneth Bateson, Krystal Bateson's father, didn't just come to watch his daughter's team take the field without her for the first time; he assumed his normal position as the scoreboard operator.
June 16, 2004
Not in California any more
I came to Lawrence all the way from Berkeley, California to cover youth baseball and softball for this website and weekly print insert in the Journal-World called Game. Everyone back home thought I'd lost my mind.
June 16, 2004
More than just small ball...
When someone asks me where I'm working this summer, telling them that I am covering little league baseball and softball in Lawrence is the simple answer, but it isn't a proper explanation of what our intentions are with this ultra-converged project.
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