"America's Email".....-BATTER UP....A LOVING HEART CARRIES WITH IT, UNDER EVERY
PARALLEL OF LATITUDE, THE WARMTH AND LIGHT OF THE TROPICS...IT PLANTS
ITS EDEN IN THE WILDERNESS AND SOLITARY PLACE...AND SOWS WITH FLOWERS
THE GRAY DESOLLATION OF ROCK AND MOSSES....~ My Baseball Blast From the
Past...We were heading for the all-time Auburn attendance
record in 1991...We had keychains printed that said "I WAS PART OF THE
ALLTIME ATTENDANCE RECORD"...We had plenty of games left...AND than
it started to rain.....And Rain..And Rain..Even Noah would have stayed away..We
lost 4 home games to rain...NO problem our
final game always drew 2,000 people...But the rain gods opened up the
night before and the tarps were not on the field-THAT'S ANOTHER
STORY-Anyway there we were, final game of the season..Sunny skies-Wet
field..The umpires called Marc Techman and me out to the pitchers
mound...Not only Marc and me but our entire staff were in white
tuxedos..UMPIRES to Auburn staff..NO GAME..YIKES ..No game...No
record....Well maybe not...Let's talk to NY PENN LEAGUE PRESIDENT Leo
Pinckney....Leo can we have a special exemption to count this
crowd...Of course....So the key chains went out...The record was
broken...and a ONE TIME ONLY league policy was changed....Thanks
Leo....FROM "BIG LEAGUE DREAMS"...(BY the way...Leo was a former
Auburn President...Lifelong Auburn resident..The league office was in
Auburn...And he was a good friend to the Auburn team...We may have
used those factors to our advantage..Leo passed just several months
ago........We thanks him for letting us have the all-time attendance record at
the now torn down Falcon Park...They now have a new Falcon Park..But we are
proud we set the record at the oldest minor league balllpark in America in
1991......That's My Field of Dreams..Make it a good
day...Let's Roll!!

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