You can take the ballplayer out of the game, but it's much tougher to take the game out of the ballplayer.
In his latest edition of Reading Baseball, Pete Peterson tells us how he yearns to step onto a diamond one more time, but how a recent trip to a batting cage reminded him that may not be such a good idea.

Reading Baseball is a series of original essays and commentaries by Richard "Pete" Peterson, author of Pops: The Willie Stargell Story and Growing Up With Clemente.