Missing Baseball

     Missing Baseball yet? Have you been tempted to watch Field of Dreams again? We all played a variation of the game (kickball, softball, stickball, Baseball-Off-The-Wall) on fields no bigger than our imaginations. We played when we didn't want to and when we were not good enough to contribute. We watched others play the game and sometimes marveled at the grace with which they competed. I can recall multiple games on the same field, some games only going on when the other games were over or were changing sides. The diamonds so small and the rules so constrained that most of what happened was over in an instant. That's when you knew and felt the passion so well that even a quick inning was better than no inning.