Can't get much more 'backyard' than that. Last week I questioned how far America had come in fostering race relations off the diamond. But the crowd roared after his recent grand slam and even cheered for a curtain call. Benard however sprinted into the dugout saying he needed to use the bathroom. Take time for all things.
Great haste makes great waste.
Gehrig played five innings before removing himself from the game due to illness. The Twins' David Ortiz broke his wrist earlier this week and will be out for at least six weeks. He broke it in the fourth inning but before leaving the game in the fifth for X-rays, he homered. The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist. Human beings seem to take morose pleasure from believing that once there was a Golden Age, some lost Eden or Camelot or superior ancient civilization, peopled by heroes and demigods, an age of greatness long lost and irrecoverable.