I moved to Chicago in 2000 after college at MIZZOU and Webster U. Went to St. Thomas Aquinas-Mercy High. Growing up in Florissant there was a corkball cage on the Knights of Columbus grounds near the Old St. Ferdinand Church, and another cage over at BJ's Pizza in the parking lot. They're both gone now. But I can remember as a little kid, night games and the hiss of the pitch and crash against the back of the fence in those claustrophobic ball fields. The game was half Baseball, half Thunder Dom… Continue

I haven’t played corkball since I was a kid, and even then it was only at a couple of family reunions (on the DuParri side of the family at that, too, if I remember correctly), and usually the game was spearheaded by my dad or one of his countless cousins. I remember having an old, weathered corkball and a beatup old corkball bat around the house growing up. That b… Continue