in 1972

my friend bought a blue baseball glove

I got a two toned glove but both were brown

One shade darker than the other

it was a Brooks Robinson model

"The human vacuum" 

that guy could play some third base 

"The hot corner"

As an adult I played on a men's hardball team

Mission Baseball Club

It wasn't a league 

just a bunch of guys who'd come out on Sunday

half the guys would go out in the field 

and the other half would be up

those were the teams that day

One time Johnny was playing third base

he got hit by a hard grounder in the neck

after a bad hop

He thought he was fine

But that night things started to go wrong 

a clot had formed in his neck and had gone to his brain

luckily they took care of him and he was fine

but ya gotta watch that hot corner