> Just 30 years ago, there were baseball fields in the parks around here. <
Back when I was a kid, my friends and I would go up to the local high school. They had two baseball fields. If the school wasn’t using a field, we were free to use it.
One field is gone now. The other is fenced in and locked. I don’t know how true it is, but I was told that’s for liability reasons. Kid trips over a rock. Parents sue the school.
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We used to go to the city owned park and played baseball at night. We turned the lights on and off the field wasn’t all fenced up and locked. Free reign. Right in the middle of a neighborhood. No one gave a rats ass. That America is gone.
Visited my old high school last week. All different, of course, in minor and major ways. Three things gone: One of two baseball fields, the swimming pool (used for competition and community recreation in a hot climate), and the tennis courts. The woodshop and auto repair class building having of course long since ‘repurposed’ into storage. “It’s just change, and you have to get used to it!”, I’m told. The school, with 500 students, couldn’t field a football team a few years back. Yes, ‘change’, indeed.