Then one day, my dad pulled into our driveway, and I watched him intently from It was all too much for a 12 year old to take in.
Would hold the check for several weeks before filling the order to make sure
Two days later, I would wait for my dad to show up with the mail to see if it had arrived (I guess I was already expecting Amazon Prime service 40 years ahead of its time.)ĭays turned to weeks and my mom explained that often vendors I convinced my mom it would be life changing for me and she wrote the check and we sent if off. While $32 doesn’t seem like much now, it felt like $1,000 in today’s economy. The process was unbelievable long, I sent off for an information packet, which in turn had the form to purchase. While reading a baseball preview magazine in 1977, I saw an advertisement for a simulated baseball game called APBA. Soon followed, but in 1978, I found the solution that forever cemented by love To teach myself how to keep score soon after from Braves radio. Parents (I still do!), but at the time, they really weren’t that much intoīaseball, I lived almost two hours from Atlanta and the Braves, which was a lotįurther back then that is seems now and there were virtually no games on TV.īut somehow, I started reading the box scores when I was around seven and began The odds were stacked against me, I had amazing
As a kid growing up in rural Middle Georgia in the 70s, I
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