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Dad and Uncle Doc and Tony Faldyik and Uncle Jim Raz liked to play baseball and they were part of a team. I might have mentioned this earlier. Anyway dad was the catcher and we used to go in somebody's car that had a rumble seat and I used to get in the back while the men folks were in the front and ride that rumble seat. That was something else. The wind would hit me in the face and I'm glad there weren't any love bugs in the air at the time or I would have been full of them in my teeth I guess but we'd get to the ball park and I was very disappointed that I didn't get to watch the game. I had to sit in that rumble seat until the game was over and dad explained to me that he didn't want me to get hurt crawling around the bleachers and I'm sure that's what I would have been doing. Dad had a compound fracture on his left thumb and when he broke it that bone stuck out and it had to heal over with skin because they didn't go to the doctor in those days. He must have been in a lot of pain for a long time until that healed over. Dad was something else. He was tough. I mean tough in that he didn't give in to pain. He just toughed it out but he was a very gentle person too and I loved him dearly.
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