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Tales from the Tabloids: Can You Throw Like a Nun?
Sister Mary Jo Sobieck, O.P., is a theology teacher and assistant boys’ volleyball coach at Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights, Illinois. She threw out the first pitch Saturday night at the White Sox-Royals game. Her perfect arm bump impressed, especially when was followed by a perfect pitch. The twitter feed of PitchingNinja compared her favorably to Clayton Kershaw.
As one of ten siblings, Sister Mary Jo loves being around young people. A tomboy herself, she played softball in high school and her pitch has been clocked at 76 mph. She prepared for her major league appearance, with Marian Catholic posting to their Instagram feed:
Sister Mary Jo believes in feeding the whole student: body, soul, and mind. I was taught by Dominicans, and I love seeing her in her habit, with her school t-shirt on, proudly showing off her God-given and Sister-Mary-Jo-honed skills for the world. May she be abundantly blessed!
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Just lovely. Thanks for this. Think she would have had much in common, and much to talk about, with Mr. She’s favorite nun, Sr. Mary Janet Ryan. Suspect they’d have been on the same team.
God bless them. I love the stories their students tell.
Me too. What a nice antidote to the news from recent days.
Definitely one of the reasons the story appealed to me so much.
She is the type of person I associate with vowed and ordained religious and priests. Robust. Admirable. Filled with joy. And possessing surprising skills.
I love the story of Cardinal Wojtyla, later Pope John Paul II. When he was found to be skiing, he was criticized for it being unseemly to be a cardinal and skiing. His reply: “It would only have been unseemly if I had skied badly.”
She’s pretty good. Reminds me of Sr Benedict, the nun who was my 3rd grade teacher. She had a cannon. Could’a played third base for anybody. She kept one eraser at the blackboard and the rest in a neat pyramid on her desk. If she caught you chatting or napping or just staring out the window she’d whip an eraser at you. Three quarters arm angle delivery. The spin rate she got on them was impressive. They made a kind of whirring or flitting sound on the way in. Just the thing to catch your attention and get you to turn your head towards them to ensure you got hit square in forehead!
The perfect juxtaposition – Obama’s “Mom Jeans” pitch:
https://www.google.com/search?q=obama%27s+mom+jeans+pitch&rls=com.microsoft:en-US:IE-Address&rlz=1I7GGRP_enUS499&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjsrYGt6vvcAhXJoFMKHYsqB_MQ_AUIDigE&biw=1280&bih=607&dpr=1.25
She has a good arm – that was fun. Thanks for sharing this.
MamaT,
She’s got the fastball and I suspect she can throw the changeup too. Sign her up. She probably will be a really effective short reliever. Probably the habit will throw their timing off.
Don’t forget it’s really great to have Gd on your team.
Regards,
Jim
Kind of like a Huey. I assume you’d be next if you announced an incoming.
Nah. The rotor tips of a Huey go supersonic under the right conditions. The resulting itty-bitty sonic booms are what make that distinctive WHUP-WHUP-WHUP sound.