My Second Childhood

Becoming a father has allowed me the opportunity to begin my second childhood. Suddenly I’ve lost interest in many of my more recent pastimes and rediscovered several of my boyhood hobbies. One of these pursuits is collecting baseball cards. I never had a large collection, but I enjoyed the limited one I composed back in the mid 1970’s. I was a casual baseball fan until the 1994 player strike when, in frustration, I chose to boycott the sport. Now I want to share the national pastime with my boys and I thought the best way to learn about the players’ names was through baseball cards. Though they are too small to understand now, I think the boys enjoy turning the pages and pointing to the brightly colored uniforms. Before long, we’ll have those players names and stats memorized.