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Show Baseball to summer as Christmas to wintrf p.g. blab By MARCELLA WALKER I see where Pleasant Grove will be hosting the state Little League Tournament this year. The men's fast pitch league tournament has just finished, and the girl's teams are nearing the end of their season. Why does baseball end so soon? There is still a lot of summer left and baseball is to summer what Christmas is to winter. I love to go watch the men's fastpitch league. The games are always so exciting and those players are very good. Several members of our family enjoy going to these games. The games for the men start early in May. When you go to the games you about freeze to death, especially after dark. By the time it gets warm enough to go spend the evening and watch two or three games, the season is half over. Then with all the other things there is to do you don't get to as many games as you would like and the next thing you know they are into the tournament. Now it is over. What will we do for entertainment on long August evenings when there is nothing ,o do? I'll be wishing there were games to goto. I am sure the wives of the ball they did! She said they hadn't had a sit-down sit-down dinner all summer. She dished out tuna sandwiches between games and she had never seen so much pop devoured in her whole life. Of course, there will be some games in Aug. Some of the local teams will qualify for state and regional games but they may not be played close enough for us to attend. The past two summers we were able to attend at least one Los Angeles Dodgers game. They are my all time favorites. We won't get to this year and I will miss it. It is kind of neat going to a professional baseball game and seeing all those guys you hear about all the time. Yes, they really do sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh inning stretch. I remember the summer when I was 18 and the bishop asked me to be the girl's Softball coach in our ward. I decided to take this job seriously and I notified each girl that practices prac-tices were going to begin at the park on Monday at 9 a.m. I drafted a friend to help me and she hesitatingly accepted. We met at , the park and waited for the girls to come. We waited and waited and no one came. I tried again the following week. Not one girl ever showed y,v ' up. (I gave up easy on hartTs J "' those days.) I wonder if J released from that calling' It is hard to get .J ; participation sports in on,; . (Except for dances. ;: dances.) A few girls who real ', sports are involved in city :V but the most only think o(sr " an excuse to go look at boys , ' Boys look good in their My girls love to look at guys-' t football pants. They think tbi A ; look good as they walk away j Of course, my heart a!; , 1 done little flip-flops when I si man in uniform. A uniform jt p ' something for men. Ek-policeman Ek-policeman looks nice in his t Military men especially k . and I think that is one reas: Col. Oliver North ci everyone's fancy so muck sy was testifying at the (. . hearings. This column was to baseball, so I don't tat) Utah ended up with Col. North, bu: : Lear to see the ball season endJ-if endJ-if it is over can football behind? Football means la.V am not at all ready tothinkif: - M up summer yet. I'll giveitc t for Christmas but not bete players are grateful the season is about over by the end of July. I watch some of those devoted wives attend the games with babes in arms and a surplus of other children running around which have to be kept track of, and I'm sure they are glad it is over. The ball games take at least two nights a week. Some guys play on more than one team in more than one league and ball games can soon stretch to every night. One woman told me the other day that she had done nothing but go to ball games all summer. Her little boy was in Little League, her daughter was playing on the girl's team and her husband played in the men's league. She said it took a lot of juggling to get to everyone's games because sometimes they overlapped. I'll bet |