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Field of Dreams

So now I’m a diamond immortal. About time. I can tell you how immortality would be a lot better: if I’d saved my money.

Not that I ever made that much, by these kids’ standards today. My best-paid season, $152,000. That was 1981. The year I lost a $200,000 house. While still making mortgage payments on the $175,000 house I had lost six years before, thanks to the lady to whom I would go on to

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