Word: krolick
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Baseball has never been so vivid as it was in Little League. The tension of watching a tight World Series doesn't come close to catching for Krolick's Department Store with the wild kid who thinks he knows how to throw a curve on the mound. The exhilaration of hitting an infield single and scoring on a three base throwing error far exceeds that of hitting a clean homer in a beery softball game...
Gold, which started the younger brother of a certain Krolick's catcher at second base trailed by one going into the bottom of the seventh and final inning. The winners would move on to post-season play; the losers would pack for summer camp. The second baseman fouled off at least 10 pitches, then walked on a fastball over the umpire's head...
...grandstands cleared, but before anyone else could reach the seen of the assault Thompson the elder streaked across the field and hit Silverstein with a flying cross-body block. While those two struggle in the dirt other fights broke out here and there and fans and players from the Krolick's game hustled from the other end of the park to add to the confusion...
...playoffs were held that year, and Krolick's was denied the opportunity to take home a well-deserved championship crown...
Silverstein and Thompston were back in action though the diminutive third baseman reportedly played left field when gold faced purple that season. Krolick's won the Intermediate League title for the second year in a rew, accomplishing, the feat without a certain catcher, who had moved up to the Major League. Where he batted somewhere around 300 and even threw out a few runners trying to steal second base...
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