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Making It Home: Inside Teresa Strasser's Lessons on Grief And Baseball

Posted at 11:20 AM, Jun 05, 2023
and last updated 2023-06-05 14:20:51-04

When her brother dies from cancer, and then her mother just four months later, Teresa Strasser has no one to mourn with but her irresponsible, cantankerous, trailer park-dwelling father. He claims not to remember her chaotic childhood, but he’s a devoted grandpa, so as her son embarks on his first season pitching in Little League, Teresa and Nelson form a grief group of two in beach chairs lined up behind the first base line.