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Jim Lieberman came from a family of worriers. It was an ancestral trait, really, probably dating back centuries. His father used to say, “Worry is the secret to a long life. Miserable, but long.”
Jim had generally followed in the anxiety-ridden family footsteps. But at some point, he’d started to question the dogma that had been handed down from his Latvian ancestors. Did worry really change anything? What if it was a fake out, a way to think you were taking precautions when really all you were doing was spinning your wheels about something that might not ever happen?
This was one of the reasons he loved baseball so much, and why he’d left college to pursue it. When someone hit a fast grounder to short, you had to react instantly. It required muscle memory, quick reflexes, and a non-d
