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Show THE BALL PLAYER'S PRAYER Lord, help me to play the game. It matters not to you whether I am talented or poor in natural gifts; wealthy or starving; a leader among men or a simple follower, so that I play the game as you would have it played. Help me to keep my eye on the ball, that the curves of temptation tempta-tion not deceive me. Keep my feet in the path of righteousness, that 1 may touch second and third on my way 'round the bases. Help me to beat out my bunts, and hold me that I stray not too far from base when the catcher is rpady to peg me.. Count not my foul balls against me, O Lord, for the batting eye sometimes some-times goes wrong, 'though the intention in-tention is right. Help me in the pinches. Lord, because a good bingle might bring my brother home. Let not the music oft he fans keep my eye from the ball, nor the enticements entice-ments of the slabman draw me away from the need of a clean single with a man on second. Help me, O Lord, to bat over 300, because my eyes are on the big league for eternity even while I sojourn here among the bush-leaguers. |