The Game of Life

Happy Easter to everybody. I hope everybody had a great day spending time with their family and friends. It are days like these that people should cherish in their memories. A person never knows when they will needed for a higher calling. On April 9th, 2009 Nicholas James Adenhart answered that call. Something like this is bigger than baseball and bigger than sports. Adenhart touched the lives of many. Sure he was a good pitcher but he was even a greater human being. Teammates loved him and they said he was always smiling and always laughing. He always had the knack to bring the best out of people. On that faithful Wednesday night Adenhart had the game of his life. He pitched six shutout innings against the Oakland Athletics. This was probably one of the happiest moments in his life. The world wanted see more but his time on this plane was up. Adenhart had another game to play but it wasn’t going to be in any ballpark. His big smile and ability to bring happiness to people was needed elsewhere. So on this great Easter Sunday let us not mourn the death of Nicholas, instead let us celebrate a life. The life of a man who was not with us long, but in his short time here was able to teach the world so much. As human beings we are not remembered by are material possessions but by the good we bring in the world, and for that reason Nicholas James Adenhart will live forever in the hearts and minds of everyone.