Baseball Tale

For anyone who likes a good baseball story, this article is for you. What if you were a prospect finally promoted to the big club but only saw one pitch your whole career...a pitch that hit you in the head and took away your ability to play? Sounds like a story that could only happen to a Chicago Cubs player. It is.

'Back then, I thought, 'Well, there'll be other days.' I didn't realize that that was the only day."

Thus spoke Dr. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham, or at least a whimsical version of him brought to life by Burt Lancaster in the 1989 baseball—some would say cornball—film "Field of Dreams."

"One day, you're on top of the world. Next day, you've got to pick yourself up."

So says Adam Greenberg, 25, a baseball player presently without a team, not yet sure if the one day he spent on a big-league field last year will turn out to be his only day.

Greenberg was diagnosed with a condition called Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo after being struck in the head by the first pitch he saw in his first game with the Cubs last summer. His dizzy spells proved to be temporary, but his baseball career took a turn for the worse that continues.

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