Word: mounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was a tall dirt mound bordering the backyard of the final row of houses. Ducking into a finely manicured lawn, I scrambled up the heap...
...peered over. Thank God, it's the Castle in the distance. Then my eye fell down from the majestic styrofoam parapets across the enormous parking lots and back toward the mound...
...YEARS old and Big Stu Kessler was pitching for Bifulco Farms. Kessler, a giant of a twelve year old, shopped for clothes in the men's section when most of us were only midway through boys'. He was a floppy headed monster on the mound, and when he let the ball go it seemed to be coming straight down...
...final game of their undefeated season, with their buffalo on the mound, Bifulco had us 1-0 into the bottom of the sixth and last inning. Happily, I was due up fourth in the inning, and I felt sure I would not be the one to make the last out. That is until Guy Olivieri chipped a grounder down the first base line that went for a triple...
...question. It took a while, and a little stumbling, but Byrne found what he was looking for. He stood near a mound of earth and shone his light down and waited. This was no exterminator. He was more like an ally. And after just a little while, the fire ants came out for David Byrne...