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A Sunny Day On the Diamond

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                    Baseball,we miss games
                    Some eggheads snarl at their pay
                    Making gain, a shame
                    None of us perfect, or are we
                    Little Leaguers, beats rioting

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                              July 10, 2020
                                Noon PST



Dedicated to those who coach and who play in Little League,
or....have friends and family playing baseball!
And to retired players who are poets here today. Thank you!
You learned good values of sportsmanship, and that winning 
and losing is all part of life! ...Play ball!

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Gershon Wolf Date: 7/12/2020 11:39:00 PM Ha, ha! 'Beats rioting' is such a great ending... Seems to be a throwaway ending at first glance, and then the reader (at least me) realizes that it's the essence of the thing!! Thanks, Panagiota! Play ball! ~ gw P.S. My Captcha is 'UMP' for the validation... Login to Reply Panagiota Romios Date: 7/13/2020 7:56:00 AM Quite the clever comment! Playing ball is wonderful. I can't! But grandson has blossomed doing it. Nearly a giant to petite moi. 5'9 at 13. Will be quite the mensch one day. Funny. UMP...-)) PR

Andrea Dietrich Date: 7/10/2020 7:01:00 PM My husband did this when our son was around 8. Good days those were! Login to Reply Panagiota Romios Date: 7/10/2020 7:36:00 PM I am sure they were....Eddie writes great baseball poetry and other types. I really respect and love him, Panagiota xx

John Watt Date: 7/10/2020 3:24:00 PM Panagiota, 3 cheers for the very rare baseball posting at Soup! I played from age 8 through high school, and as you said, learned many valuable lessons. The ones you mentioned, plus teamwork, working hard for something, and keeping your eye on the ball (focus)! Also, it was my first exposure to racial diversity back in the 60's as my neighborhood and schools were not diverse at all. Best wishes for your grandson in Little League and beyond! Login to Reply Panagiota Romios Date: 7/10/2020 3:40:00 PM Thanks John for sharing all you learned in your years. Adding racial diversity, thank you. I know how deeply the parents are involved. Takes a lot of family teamwork. Great exercise, keeping in shape year round. Plus teams from other countries. Not much time to sit about destroying the country. He's out of LL due to age but still plays on other teams. Best wishes to all boys and now a few girls in LL, too? Tremendous share...Panagiota xx. Thank you.

Tom Cunningham Date: 7/10/2020 2:44:00 PM That old saying, doesn't matter if you win or lose but how you played the game. But that's it in life, you win some you lose some, no use cribbing about it. Be grateful you're alive I say. Tom Login to Reply Panagiota Romios Date: 7/10/2020 3:29:00 PM How lovely, Tom. I like the phrase cribbing about))) in the States we say crabbing about.)) Eddie is really learning sportsmanship. He's been in baseball since he was 3" he's now 13. He hopes to be in the MLB. He's tall and a powerful pitcher.no games is awful here in the Major Leagues till end of July. Worse, no fans at games. Panagiota xx Panagiota xx