BASEBALL DREAMS

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"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. ...this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and it could be again. Ohhhhhhhh, people will come, Ray. People will most definitely come." 

~Terrence Mann (James Earl Jones) from "Field of Dreams"

Just a game.

A thread in the fabric

of Americana; ranks with

Mom's apple pie,

Dad's Chevrolet.

But we'd play for hours.

Breaking windows,

crushing flowers.

On youth's field,

yielding the promise

of a future bright.

In the light of Doubleday,

we'd play. No visions 

of Cooperstown or

World Series heroics,

just a stoic jaunt through

a dirt infield. Days past,

and present futures strong,

I long for the days to play.

We built our dreams on

that field. If you build it,

dreams will come.
And they did.

                                                                                                                     Photo by Walt Wojtanik