Kevin Costner’s “Field of Dreams” movie poster depicts some of the great Negro players, who participated only in the Negro baseball League, coming out of the corn fields to play ball on Costner’s make-shift baseball diamond. I haven’t done an in depth study of where any of these older players ended up after their playing days, but what I know to be true of our modern baseball and football players (21st Century and counting), is that the greater majority of them are broke, bankrupt, or in dire finical straights within five years of retiring, regardless of how many multi-millions of dollars they’d made during their careers.

We’ll not go into the many reasons why this is so, but suffice it to say, that when and if an athlete bottoms-out, financially speaking, many of them are most susceptible to hearing the Word of God preached to them. I never made enough excess monies playing professional football with the Steelers and Chiefs to even consider purchasing multi-expensive, fancy automobiles. What little left-over monies I invested in land real estate, which carried me through some of the leaner years after my final retirement in 1975 from there WFL.

But my first wife’s divorce from me was enough to bring me to my knees, and get me the help I needed from above in Jesus Christ our Lord.