Time & Tide by Frank Conroy

Author:Frank Conroy
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780307422514
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2009-03-08T10:00:00+00:00

No aluminum bats

No beer

No radios

High standards of sportsmanship

Eventually, it became a tradition, each year of play marked by its own T-shirt.

Nothing was ever formalized beyond these rules. No records were kept. Whoever showed up showed up (“Where’s Freddie?” Pause. “Hung over.”), and there were always more than enough players. As time went on, and my sons got through their growth and began to be picked first, there were even spectators on the benches. It was a completely spontaneous happening, and it lasted thirteen years. Thirteen years! But we’d never registered anywhere, or even thought of reserving the field, which we’d taken for granted for so long—and when the island grew and the “First World” league grew also, they took the field away from us. Nantucket was changing, we all knew, but the loss of Third World Softball was particularly painful.

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