A million or so years ago, back when both the earth and I were young, there was a high school baseball player named Dave Seddon.
At the time, he was maybe the best player in the state of New Jersey, good enough for the Boston Red Sox to offerehim $50,000 to sign after high school … and this was when $50,000 was a lot of money.
Dave Seddon said no. He was going to join his former high school coach at Colby College in Maine.
A year later he was no longer a prospect, his ankle badly broken, his dream of a major league career over, the money gone.
This story is brought up at this time not to lament the decision a friend from long ago and far away made, but to emphasis just how fragile our lives and goals can be. It is brought up at this time because there’s another athlete, one who made the opposite decision, whose career now hangs in the balance.
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