Reply #14: During the summer we played baseball in a neighbor's yard from [View All]

[Old Troop]

early morning until dark. We argued about pitches and how many fouls a guy was allowed. Somehow we worked it all out. Once, when I was 10 (1964)the pitcher got hit right in the chest with a line drive. Apparently the impact caused a heart attack. He was eventually all right, but no parents told us to stop and none came over to supervise us after the incident. Our parents just told us to be very careful. My brother, while playing catcher with no protective equipment, caught a bat in the teeth knocking out his upper front ones. The older kids stopped the bleeding and brought him home. He had two silver teeth for years after that and no-one thought of law suits. We learned to take care of ourselves and resolve emergencies and issues on our own.