Foreword: I have written quite a few stories during the past nine years about my love of baseball. Often I would tell of youth ball games known as "off the wall" in the parking lot of the printing company behind my childhood home on North Queen Street in Lancaster, PA. But, I never really told how it was played and by whom. That will all change today.
It was an ordinary day. Talking with my brother Steve about baseball. Nothing new, since that's what we talk about all the time. I was five years older than my brother, but that didn't stop him from trying to keep up with me in baseball. When I played midget-midget baseball (ages 9-12 years old) he was always at the games and sometimes served as bat boy. He eventually played midget-midget, jr. midget, and high school ball at Manheim Township High School and still holds our high school record for most consecutive strike-outs by a pitcher when he struck out 11 players in a row. His name is still in the record book in a few other pitching categories, right behind my son Derek's name. But what we both remember the most about our baseball careers is playing "off the wall" in the macadam parking lot of the printing company that was behind our house in the north end of the city of Lancaster, PA.
Friday, March 22, 2019
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