In section 3, a kid attending his first ballgame peppers his uncle with questions. Nobody captured the game at midcentury like the man whose pen was as mighty as Joltin' Joe's bat. See, it was outside of the white line. Those ones don't count. Two innings later, the kid is a veritable umpire.
Behavioral scientists believe children's brains are hard-wired to pick up language skills.
Watch a kid at his first game and you quickly develop the impression there's also some baseball circuitry in there. It takes a while. In the ever-popular spin race, two kids, usually a boy and a girl, spin around until they're thoroughly dizzy, then run for the finish line. He spins with vigor and enthusiasm. His more prudent female rival spins much more modestly.