Play Ball!

These are my brothers, Alan and Joe, on the well-worn baseball diamond in our back yard. We had the most exciting neighborhood ball games you could ever imagine! Of course, part of that excitement was because a foul ball would often entail climbing the fence and finding the ball in the field where Jimmy Hutchins' "Mean Bull" lived. Do you remember how to choose up sides on a team by throwing the bat and fisting up to the top and then there would be that tense moment when we all eyes had to agree the winner's thumb reached completely over the top of the bat? We had strict rules back then, and we all followed them! Those were very happy days!