Monday, March 18, 2019

Show Me the Place, 14

“Show me the place.”
Duke Senior in As You Like It (2.1)

15: The Baseball Diamond; Hiram, Ohio

The Hiram School, I’ve said, is gone—
You have to know where it once was
To find the spot—it’s just a lawn.

I miss the Hiram School because,
Of course, it was a place of good.
(Nostalgia: What a memory does.)

I used that ball field all I could—
It was a special place for me:
I made my boyhood livelihood!

The Hot Stove League—great memory!
Those high school teams—the purest glee!
I loved that diamond—fervently!

Hiram's Hot Stove League
F Team (based on age, not a grade for our skill!)
1958?
I'm 3rd from the left in the back.


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