It’s a sad reality that drives home to me that I’m becoming an antique.
As a kid we played ball all the time, it’s all we had to do. Pitcher’s hand, closed field, ghost runners, we could play a game with 8 kids, 4 on a side, and we did.
We’d also play wiffle ball when we didn’t have enough for a “real game”. That only took 2 people, one to pitch, one to hit. Stand in the front yard, and over the street over the hedges was a home run.
Those days are gone, probably forever. An xbox is far too slick, and way too appealing to kids. I feel sorry for them.
Rent the movie “The Sandlot” sometime. GREAT movie, (it’s a kid’s movie), and it wasn’t far from my childhood experience.
“pitcher’s hand”, “ghost runners”,...
I’m getting sentimental here.
I played football vs my younger brother and big bro served as quaterback for each team.
Yes, the sand lot can teach a kid to “make do.”
Now they need the namebrand bat, top of line cleats, the super duper A2000 glove, etc etc.
"Michael Squints Palledorous walked a little taller that day. And we had to tip our hats to him. He was lucky she hadn't beat the CRAP out of him. We wouldn't have blamed her. What he'd done was sneaky, rotten, and low... and cool. Not another one among us would have ever in a million years even for a million dollars have the guts to put the moves on the lifeguard. He did. He had kissed a woman. And he had kissed her long and good. We got banned from the pool forever that day. But every time we walked by after that, the lifeguard looked down from her tower, right over at Squints, and smiled."
Absolutely classic!
I love The Sandlot! Just watched it again the other day. Growing up, we had lots of kids in our neighborhood and played baseball, football, basketball, went “exploring”, built forts, went fishing at the canal down the street. And I’m a girl! LOL