The Friday Peace: The Curveball from Limerick

In Albany’s Limerick neighborhood, a young pitcher discovered that baseball could offer something the canal yards could not — a way out. Here's your one quiet piece for the end of the week.

With both baseball and St. Patrick’s Day on people’s minds this week, I thought it appropriate to revisit a story I stumbled upon years ago while researching a book I have long since shelved.

There wa…