I'm probably teaching English III this summer in summer school (I'll know in a few hours). If I do, I will use this story to teach the concept of irony.

This is a story about fate, a story about a curse -- if you care to believe in such things. It is a story about coming to grips with them, and maybe, just maybe, reversing them. It is a story about a 12-year-old boy in a black T-shirt who is now a polished 22-year-old man with a marketable talent. And it is a story about a beleaguered baseball team that may be preparing to take a wild stab at manipulating fate by confronting it head-on.

Jeffrey Maier, a future Baltimore Oriole? Oh, dear heaven. The blood of Orioles fandom boils at the very thought of the name, let alone the thought of such a traitorous alliance.

Could the deities that control the vagaries of baseball have conspired to put the kid who probably cost the Baltimore Orioles a shot at the World Series title on the Orioles as a player? It looks like it could be that way.

Ah, the irony or it all!

And the chance for a little bit of redemption and forgiveness after all these years.

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