The whole key, on Opening Day, was to keep the baseball out of the mud. They had extra baseballs at Dodger Stadium, and at Busch Stadium and Riverfront Stadium and Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park and other places. But a mile down Crocker Road, in Randolph Center, Vermont, we had only one baseball. And every Opening Day, the dirt of Crocker Road was a soggy, muddy quagmire from the melting snow, such a mess that during this time of year, the school bus driver wouldn't even bother attempting to m ...

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