well, i am back on the road with the "boys of summer" and it has been a great trip. 2 games, 2 wins over the #1 ranked team in their division standings. 2 games, 2 days, 2 wins!!! definately moves us up in the standings. we are now 5 and 5.
it is very cool to be with these guys. i am a "baseball junkie" and this is supporting my habit. it was a childhood dream of mine to play major league baseball as a kid. to be a part of this takes me back to my childhood. i was raised by "ward and june cleaver" for parents. dad worked, mom stayed at home and was she always there when i got home from school. what happened to the rest of my life is still a mystery. but i had a good start!!!
had a chance to try out for the cincinnati reds back in 1974 or 1975 just after graduating from high school. a man who ran our recreation league was a scout and was a very nice man. always fair and treated everybody with respect. his name was "dunk" and had a horrible speech impediment. kids made fun of him and it was not fair. they treated him very badly as kids do, but he loved them anyway. what a heart for kids and baseball he had. just before i was going to meet with him, i cut 2 fingers off my right hand. since i was a right handed pitcher, that was the end of that. although i had them re-attached, a dream was lost. now, through these guys, i get to live at least a part of it. i have always heard that if you aren't living your dreams, you aren't living.
until next time...
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