{"id":10695,"date":"2011-01-10T08:06:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T15:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seamheads.com\/?p=10695"},"modified":"2011-01-10T08:06:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T15:06:58","slug":"in-memory-of-christina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/10\/in-memory-of-christina\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memory of Christina"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This post is dedicated to the memory of Christina Taylor Green<\/em><\/p>\n

student council president,\u00c2\u00a0 beloved daughter,\u00c2\u00a0 sister, <\/em><\/p>\n

granddaughter,\u00c2\u00a0 friend,\u00c2\u00a0 Little League teammate,
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and inspiration to many who never knew her. <\/em><\/p>\n

_______<\/p>\n

Christina Taylor Green.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Born\u00c2\u00a0 9-11-2001.\u00c2\u00a0 Daughter of John Green, East Coast supervisor of amateur scouts for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and granddaughter of Dallas Green<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0 The only female player on her Canyon del Oro Little League team<\/a> in Tucson, Arizona, she dreamed of one day becoming a veterinarian,\u00c2\u00a0 politician,\u00c2\u00a0 artist, or professional ballplayer.<\/p>\n

I can say from experience that the routines and activities enjoyed by a nine-year-old girl are in many ways the happiest stretch of life for those who inevitably become women.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Many of us grow older only to look back upon the carefree girls we once were, feeling as if we are essentially that very same person, and wishing we could still play games on a simple field as if time hardly mattered, assuming that such days will last forever.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes we long to be a young girl just like Christina, running happily onto the field in spring or walking freely in the open air on a beautiful Saturday morning, a whole day and an entire life stretching before her . . . .<\/p>\n

Remind us that baseball will never die,\u00c2\u00a0 for its everlasting rhythms lie rooted in the soil and its passions in the smell of new grass, in the hot sunshine of the deepest summers, in the enduring chatter that ripples through the bleachers . . . <\/em><\/p>\n

Above all, grant us boyhood and girlhood where in time\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s soft reverie we are forever children, and where baseball shall dwell with us always, and where sharp grounders are eternally fielded in a new leather glove, and drives to deep center are ceaselessly ensnared in shoestring catches, and the wicked curveballs are met with two-run singles to left center to win the games in the bottom half of the ninth.<\/em><\/p>\n

Willie Morris,\u00c2\u00a0 A Prayer for the Opening of the Little League Season<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Rest in soft peace, Christina.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And may baseball dwell always within you – just as Willie Morris prayed it would – and other joys too, even though you will not live on earth to see another Opening Day.<\/p>\n

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This post is dedicated to the memory of Christina Taylor Green student council president,\u00c2\u00a0 beloved daughter,\u00c2\u00a0 sister, granddaughter,\u00c2\u00a0 friend,\u00c2\u00a0 Little League teammate, and inspiration to many who never knew her. _______ Christina Taylor Green.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Born\u00c2\u00a0 9-11-2001.\u00c2\u00a0 Daughter of John Green, East Coast supervisor of amateur scouts for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and granddaughter of Dallas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12757,12762,12750,12756,12755,12758,12760,12763,12759,6737,147,60,12752,1607,12764,12765,12761,12751,12753,12754],"class_list":["post-10695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-beloved-daughter","tag-boyhood","tag-christina-taylor","tag-curveballs","tag-dallas-green","tag-daughter-sister","tag-girlhood","tag-granddaughter","tag-john-green","tag-leather-glove","tag-little-league","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-new-grass","tag-passions","tag-reverie","tag-ripples","tag-shoestring","tag-student-council-president","tag-taylor-green","tag-willie-morris"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t