GAME by Fred Holt
Some folks say that the baseball team from Pansy was the best in Arkansas, at least in southeast Arkansas, in 1941, in the summer. When they came to play, people from all over turned out. They especially turned out in my town the year Big Alton York came home from the Army and pitched for our team. When Big Alton pitched, we were almost as good as Pansy. Even before Big Alton came back, I went to the game every Sunday. I attended the Methodist Sunday School and Church Sunday morning so that my folks would let me go to the game in the afternoon. If the game lasted extra-long, I sometimes missed the young people’s meeting Sunday night. They didn’t mind that so much. Dutch Gravemire was my favorite player. He tried out with the Detroit Tigers. He played third-base and led off the batting ...