We played baseball without helmets
Probably why I flunked algebra
Home plate was a large protruding boulder
Only those not to bright slid in head first
Why I flunked Geometry or took it at all
You didn't have a mitt you borrowed one
Why I threw both left and right handed
Bats were wooden and lasted all season
The kids who didn't own one used the broken bats
By the end of the season I was mostly bunting
Baseballs lasted until the cover came off
Then they were unstrung and became golf balls
Someone set them off and they became rockets
Windows were not double pained--at lease near the field
We played choose up--if you weren't chosen
You didn't play---why I slid head first into home
Today is the same--If your folks don't have
money--you don't play, I miss those days