Good Old Days Magazine

Wrong Way

Back in the late 1960s, my brother, Steve, played Little League baseball for his grade school team, the Eisenhower Dragons in Tulsa, Okla. Unfortunately, this was several years before somebody intelligent recognized that second-graders have certain physical limitations that hamper their ability to play ball like the Big Boys.

Nowadays, a second-grade ballplayer plays T-ball,

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