We swapped tales about life since our last meeting, nearly 30 years ago, and after that, we fished out our old stories from the dark recesses of our minds, dusted them off, and reminisced about playing battle ball, butts up, and ruthlessly difficult research-based trivia games.
There are no set pieces: no battle, no ball.
"I was battling, foul ball, foul ball, just thinking, don't strike out," Reyes said.
sources: Civil War Trust; Richard F. Miller, "The Battle of Balls Bluff: Would Terrain Maps Have Made a Difference?" from "Torn in Two: 150th Anniversary of the Civil War"; James A. Morgan, "A Little Short of Boats: the Civil War Battles of Ball's Bluff & Edwards Ferry".
Partisanship during the war was perhaps even more toxic than ever; Republicans created the Committee on the Conduct of the War largely to disgrace Democratic generals in the aftermath of the disastrous Battle of Balls Bluff (where Republican Senator Edward Baker was killed).
The politics behind the statement, to be made in a speech to the Fabian Society on Saturday, underline the uphill battle that Balls and the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, have been waging to persuade voters that they will be tough on government spending, or that they have an economic plan for sustained recovery.
B1 Religion Journal B5 Neediest Cases B5 SPORTSSATURDAY D1-8 The Battle of the Ball The Boston Red Sox' first baseman, Doug Mientkiewicz, who caught the ball for the final out that ended the team's World Series jinx, still has the ball.
Spectators are now treated to a genuine battle between spinning ball and bat.
They outmuscled us at scrum time and won the battle over the ball and under the body at the breakdown.
Visconti films both the battle and the ball from a distanced, lofty position, looking down on the action from an elevated point of view, gathering vast numbers of extras into his wide-angle images.
