[RKDinOKC]

5th and 6th grade? Back in grade school we played baseball. I was my team's Clean Up Batter 'cause I usually knocked it over the fence. Played Catcher and was ace at catching tipped fouls. Hated spending the innings squatting made my legs hurt at night. There were no signs, the pitchers only had one pitch, "try to make it over the plate."

Our team sucked and almost never won. Kinda turned me off on playing sports despite the encouragement of even the coaches of the other teams to pursue it.

We walked or road our bikes to the local grade school playground to practice. Later we got a nice field 5 miles away. The coach picked us all up in his pickup truck for practices, couldn't do that today.