Jon (Cntryforce) here now. I know this post is somewhat of a mess;
I just sat here and let it spill out of me. Let me tell you what inspired
it.
It happened while I was sitting in traffic the other day. At a red
light,
guys were collecting money for a high school baseball team. It truly made me
sick. When one of the guys approached my car carrying is milk jug full of
change, I just glared at him, and he went on to the next car. So many people
are dying every day of diseases which need research money and people want us
to donate to high school baseball.
Does this bother anyone else?
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Hi Jon
I enjoyed your story very much! Let me tell you a story in return now. I
used to love playing baseball. More than anything. I never went to high
school though, and I never played any organized ball at all. Mostly just me
and a bunch of other hillbilly kids would get together once in a while and
use an old broom stick for a bat to swat around a taped up ball in an old
cow pasture. Cowpie Stadium we called it. We surely had a good time though.
Years later when I grew up and moved north, my family and me bought our
first house in a small and friendly town. A man stopped by to welcome us
into town, and also wondered if my two sons would like to play little
league. They did. The man also asked if I would like to coach a team as the
league was short on coaches and desparately needed one. Well now, I said, I
never played organized ball, much less coached it, but the man said that was
no matter and told me to come to the next meeting anyway if I was interested
in coaching. So I did. And I ended up coaching little league for 17 years.
Been done with coaching now for over ten years but I still miss it. And I
still see the boys I coached around town all the time. One of them told me
once that he had never had more fun in his life than the years he spent
playing little league ball. We did have fun. And after I thought about it,
by God if that boy wasn't right. I never had so much fun either, and I
wasn't even playing! But unless you feel the love for the game though its
hard to understand that, I guess.
But do me a favor. Next time you see someone asking for money for baseball,
remember an old hillbilly's love affair with the game and drop a buck in.
Give a kid a chance to play that he might not otherwise have. I think it's
purely Quality to do so.
Cory
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