My Memory of a Miracle at Midnight, by Kevin Wells

By Kevin Wells, Catholic Exchange, March 28, 2025

Kevin Wells is a former Major League Baseball writer, Catholic speaker, and author of The Hermit: The Priest Who Saved a Soul, a Marriage, and a Family (Ignatius Press) and Priest and Beggar: The Heroic Life of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz (Ignatius Press). His best-selling book The Priests We Need to Save the Church was published by Sophia Institute Press in 2019.

I recently wrote about a supernatural event that occurred at the exact moment the Florida Marlins stunned the Cleveland Indians in Game 7 of the 1997 World Series. At the time, I was a young baseball writer sent by the Tampa Tribune to cover the game. There, I found myself elbow-to-elbow between two seasoned baseball writers from New York and Kansas City. As the scoreboard clock inched toward midnight, the overstuffed Pro Player Stadium press box had become a tinderbox of worried writers. The looming deadline weighed on the shoulders of the more than 300 reporters. Yet, amid the tension, everyone knew they were witnessing something extraordinary—a four-hour, nine-minute masterpiece of nearly flawless baseball, now entering the bottom of the eleventh inning, where the bases were loaded with two outs. …

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