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A Chevy Citation, a Cow, and the Texas Rangers: Memory, Myth, and Growing Up Gen-X in Texas

A Chevy Citation, a Cow, and the Texas Rangers: Memory, Myth, and Growing Up Gen-X in Texas

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This episode slows things down. No scandal.
No collapse.
No reckoning.

Just one summer night that stayed with me. In this episode of Confessions of a Gen-X Mind, I step away from corporate failures and heavy family history to tell a quieter story. It’s about a Texas Rangers game at old Arlington Stadium in the summer of 1985, and a ten-year-old kid who needed the world to make sense for nine innings.


After a long week that included late-night construction cleanup with my mom, a battered Chevy Citation, and a close call on a dark country road, a night at the ballpark became something more than entertainment. It became relief. Order. Calm. Baseball offered structure when everything else felt loud.
With Charlie Hough on the mound, legends like Buddy Bell and Oddibe McDowell on the field, and an unforgettable moment involving two Major League game balls, this episode reflects on the small, human moments that quietly shape us. It’s a story about work ethic, patience, and how stability sometimes arrives in ordinary places.


This isn’t a dramatic memory.


It’s a meaningful one.
Sometimes the moments that stay with us aren’t the loud ones.
Sometimes it’s just a good night for baseball.


This work reflects personal experience, opinion, and publicly available information. It is not intended as a statement of fact about any person beyond matters already on public record.
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