Wes Bischel
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I came across this article on sandlot baseball - or the demise of it. I really hadn't thought about it, but they are right on a lot of counts.
The boys next door are both in baseball leagues and are gone a good amount of the time - and wiped out when home. All the while, the ball field up the street is empty.
How many of you remember those long summer days playing in the vacant lot down the street? Second base was the big piece of concrete, home plate was made from pieces of flagstone fit together that resembled the correct shape. If the ball got lost in the tall weeds, the game stopped and everyone started looking for it. (we usually only had one ball) No helmets, cleats, uniforms, just a glove and if you were lucky a cap.
Oh well, a trip down memory lane if nothing else.
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/25737531/
Wes
The boys next door are both in baseball leagues and are gone a good amount of the time - and wiped out when home. All the while, the ball field up the street is empty.
How many of you remember those long summer days playing in the vacant lot down the street? Second base was the big piece of concrete, home plate was made from pieces of flagstone fit together that resembled the correct shape. If the ball got lost in the tall weeds, the game stopped and everyone started looking for it. (we usually only had one ball) No helmets, cleats, uniforms, just a glove and if you were lucky a cap.
Oh well, a trip down memory lane if nothing else.
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/25737531/
Wes