June 4 - Baseball

Those were the days…

As I sit in my office I can see about ten boys in our neighborhood playing a friendly game as baseball in the backyards. This brings back memories of when I was a kid and we played baseball.

I grew up on a farm in central South Dakota. We had neighbors that lived close, but it was not like it is in town. In town, my kids can always find someone to play with. Many nights, on the farm, we would play baseball as a family. We had old disk plates as bases and the pitcher’s mound. For those of you from town, disk plate are a parts from farm machinery. I need to remind you that we were a family of four! So that means, Dad or Mom pitched, one person is up to bat and the other two are in the field. Home plate was close to the barn so the ball could bounce off the barn as a backstop since the batter was also the catcher.

I was a homerun queen in those days. It was so easy to get a home run! First of all, there were only three people in the field. Secondly, we had a slight hill on our yard, so if the batter was able to get the ball rolling down the hill, it would keep going and going as the fielder chased it. By the time the ball was return to home plate the runner was sure to have a home run!

Those were the days… Life was so simple.

Blessings
Robin