Ch Farhan’s Story

I wish I had highlight film of my greatest sports plays. Some of them would be amazing to watch.

Since I don't, I'll describe a few of them here.

Playing softball as a young adult, I was playing 2nd base, went deep up the middle to field the ball and tossed the ball behind my back to the shortstop to get a forceout at 2nd.

Playing touch football as a young adult, I ran a pattern as a wide receiver, slipped in my turn, fell on my butt, and caught the ball that had been thrown already from a sitting position.

My favorite baseball achievement story was the near no-hitter I pitched as an 18 year old. I didn't pitch very often, but I was assigned to pitch this one day. I was rolling right along when my dad came up to me in the dugout about the 5th inning and said "Are you aware you have a no-hitter going?". I was not. We were losing 1-0 on a combination of a walk and/or errors. The 6th inning came and went and I gave up no hits. In the 7th and final inning of the game, I got the first two batters out and was only one out away from no-hitter immortality. I threw a pitch and the batter popped the ball up high to left field. I began walking off the field confident that my no-hitter was secure, when, several steps toward the dugout I remembered that playing in left field was my little brother Mikey. I turned to left field and watched as Mikey ran a few steps forward, then a few steps back, then a few steps back in again as the ball fell to the ground just a step in front of him. He didn't touch it, so it couldn't be ruled an error and had to be scored as a hit. The next batter smashed a double deep to the fence and scored the other runner. I then got the final batter out. It was a two-hitter. We lost 2-0. But it was nearly, and could have easily been, a no-hitter. Poor Mikey will hear about that one, and never live it down, as long as he lives. ;-)