the key in my opinion...."we played and played and played" Jeez remember playing till we fought and then were to tired to fight so we played some more! Right up to about 7th grade when i got a nice bike and was allowed to ride to the community pool, still played a lot but it was hard to compete with girls in bathing suits!!
I will never forget my old Johnny Bench batter up, my dad poured an old tire full of concrete and i hit for hours on that damn thing. It was baseballs version of tether ball I guess.
Smokem - Ball Four was a classic, good call, right up there with Boys of Summer and the Umpire Strikes back.
