He grew up and still lives in Effort. He's spent summers in Missouri and West Virginia. His most recent address was Shippensburg, where he went to school the past four years.

Home, though, for Pat Kregeloh is none of the above. In fact, it's not a town, a borough, a city or a state.

It's a diamond.

"I just feel at home on the baseball field," Kregeloh said. "It's where I belong.

"I started when I was 3 years old. I was playing T-ball then. I've loved the game my whole entire life. I probably picked up a wiffle ball bat when I was 1 year old."

In this column, I will never tell you to adopt my eccentricities--even the ones that serve as the foundation of my health and fitness. From time to time, however, I will tell you about them, so you can learn from them and possibly modify them to suit your needs.

Especially after two well-publicized studies find an element of soundness to my strangeness.