Baseball Dreams

I remember as a kid my mother gave my copy of Frank Waldman's "Bonus Pitcher" to the school book fair I had to buy it back for a quarter the book told the tale of how a "bonus baby" won the respect of those who rejected him at first Also, it told the tale of the Brooklyn Dodgers defeating the Boston Red Sox in a World Series I have re - read the book during hard moments in my life Baseball defines America Our national pastime is also enshrined in the movie "Field of Dreams" As for myself - I only played catcher for a short while in the Little Leagues and cried as a kid when the Mets lost (as they usually did in the early days) I heard stories of ballplayers from years ago and they still reverberate in my in my mind Older now - the best I could do now is whack some softballs at the batting cages Time wears us all down Baseball diamonds still shine brightly in the minds of most Americans