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To: Maple MAGA who wrote (761356)4/16/2022 1:28:59 AM
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If you're over 40, chances are good that you had scads of free time as a child—after school, on weekends, over the summer. And chances are also good that, if you were asked about it now, you'd go on and on about playing in the woods and riding your bike until the streetlights came on.

....my short term memory is fading fast.........but my long term memory could not be better......seems like yesterday (over 60 years) when I would walk 6 days a week about 3/4 mile to the ball park...........3 ball games going at any one time........I think EVERYBODY who was somebody in my life at the time was there....it was GREAT!........yet when I go back downs there now, what do I see?...manicured fields, light towers everywhere, actual ball field dugouts, clubhouses (for even 10-12 year old little leaguers), multi fountained lake with bike/walk/jog paths........we had none of this...... no lights....we were lucky to get the weekday games in before dark....our dugouts were splinter filled wooden benches ...never even heard of the word "clubhouse."......recall one time, the infield "grass" had grown so high our manager had to come early and mow it himself......the lake was just a rain filled ex. clay pit from the long gone local brick industry....and there were ALWAYS a half dozen or so locals fishing there..............BUT most disturbingly, I see just a small fraction of the local kids out there experiencing life........one must ask....what have we done?

...local ballpark......my life focus from ages 8-18.........minor league / little league / babe ruth league / connie mack league / Amerion Legion baseball...all leading to high school ball in adjoining town

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also.......I note from the google satellite photo.... the large Victorian house I grew up in (built in 1896 by my great grand father) was recently torn down on Washington Ave.....................dam
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