Erin Fitzgerald's stories have appeared in Hobart, Monkeybicycle, PANK, wigleaf, and other fine literary journals. Her chapbook "This Morning Will Be Different" is in the anthology Shut Up/Look Pretty (Tiny Hardcore Press). She is the lead editor of The Northville Review. Her last A1C was 5.8.
Ever since its invention in the mid-19th century, people have seen baseball as a metaphor for American life. Writers and filmmakers from John Updike to Ken Burns have used the…