![]() This was an era before they had rules and regulations in place to protect young, developing athletes. His back has a permanent curvature to his spine from all that pitching. He’d pitch complete games, sometimes two or three times a week. My father was a dominate pitcher in high school. When I got old enough to ride the tractor with my father, we would listen to the game together as the ruts of the field would bounce us from side to side. Even when he wasn’t in the house, the radio would still be on with the sounds of the crowd, the sharp crack of a bat, and the exciting play by play commentary of the announcer punctuating the silence of a hot summer afternoon. From opening day until the final out, my father had the AM radio tuned to the Royals baseball games. Since the moment I was aware enough to process sounds and know what they mean, I’ve been a Kansas City Royals fan. ![]() In the end, quite the other way, one is renewed.” ![]() But one does not come away from visits with them, from long nights remembering the past and considering the present, full of sorrow. ”Sooner or Later,” the author Ed Linn observes, “society beats down the man of muscle and sweat.” Surely these fine athletes, these boys of summer, have found their measure of ruin. ![]()
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