The adult volunteers worked long nights after work, whipping fields into shape so their sons could experience the combat of hardball without the pleasures of cow pies and random rocks placed Murphy like, in just the right karmic position.
Little did we know, we were to be a small part of a larger saga. A story that continues today on the same, vastly improved ball fields. But in 1958, the men ran out of money and in Hovey Square Park, local ground rules had to be established. There was no fence in left field.
Local Variations
Louisville Slugger War Club
held
Ground Rule Birch Tree
double-
no fence-
all you can get
to the left
-in the puddles
tadpoles relentless.
Beaver brook
falls dam
tops worn Kids Ked
smooth-
How many horn-pout
pulled-
breathless.
Soft sighing of
the wind blow
south from the mountains
flow over
pushing
to
the Merrimack River
towns built
on sites
indian war whoops
chasing Mohawk away
behind Bob Garipy’s
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