| Sometimes I'll be watching a game and one of the | | | | computers (and, no Instant Messenger, thank God!), |
| teams has a pretty darn good catcher. I mean, he | | | | no cell phones, no X-Box 360 and so on. What did |
| has a cannon for an arm, good size, quick feet back | | | | we do, besides have to cut the grass? Well, we |
| there, blocks real good, and on and on.But little things | | | | played baseball, softball and sometimes football in the |
| happen in games with guys like these and I sit there | | | | same day. We did this day in and day out and still |
| scratching my head thinking, "Why didn't he do this? | | | | had baseball games at night. We developed many |
| Or, why didn't he do that? Or, he had him there if he | | | | baseball "instincts", even as small kids. Kids don't play |
| would have just thrown it!" There can be a small list | | | | pickup games in neighborhoods anymore. It's all |
| of these things that this "pretty darn good" catcher | | | | organized now, down to the smallest details.Years |
| does, or doesn't do. It's only recently that I think I | | | | ago, even though kids didn't play as many organized |
| realize why I see this type of thing today.Think back, | | | | games, I think on the average kids played more |
| you older guys, when your video game was Pong, or | | | | baseball. |
| at the best, the original Atari. There were no | | | | |