This is my autobiography. I have including verifiable documentation and events. If you still doubt my veracity and wish to take it as an allegory or a parable, that's fine as there were a few interpretations of my own included, but the rest is factual. The names can be obtained through the North High School and City of Akron Registries to verify names, dates, and places, as well the North Akron Hot Stove League, the Greater Akron Baseball Federation, as well as the University of Akron. While I am not a terribly religious person, I am a person of great faith. The Sun Journal newspaper is no longer in existence, but the Canton Repository is, and there are weather records for February 2001 to verify the Earthquake in Seattle, Washington as well as the North Canton Hoover High School basketball contest in Barberton, Ohio. There are also U.S.

Postal records to verify the Cleveland Plain Dealer accepted my letters to Bud Shaw, Sports Columnist, on a daily basis for eight and a half years until early 2008. six of these years came after the 9/11 terrorists attacks when mail was given greater scrutiny. I would say most the events are coincidental, except maybe the ones involving Coach Creed and Jeff Thompson, a former friend who deserted me the last two years of high school. I intended no malice against Dale Cantrell, Greg Popa, Ton Mann or the City or People of Seattle. As far as situational miracles, a few actually have occurred. If you still find this implausible, truth is stranger than fiction.