[ConservativeDude]

with regards to your sandlot experience...there is an amazing, amazing, amazing poem by BH Fairchild about baseball pick up games that you simply must read. Talk about learning lessons of life in this context.

Here read this and get back to me with your impressions:

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/body-and-soul/

It does have some strong language in it...but it’s all worth it.

(Then...you should consider putting YOUR experience as you described it into a column, or a short story or something....I really liked your post).

[SamAdams76]

Thanks you for the link to that BH Fairchild poem. As soon as I saw the Commerce, OK reference, I should have know that it would feature Mickey Mantle! It was very well written and due to Mickey's age at the time, I was able to determine the year to be 1946 - right after WW2. What I got out of the story was that only a few people get to come in contact with greatness and those blue-collar working-class sandlot ballplayers were able to have the experience.