[HexsHeroes]

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It was our team's first round game in the Michigan Little League World Series. Top of the 1st inning, I am playing Left field, and batting fifth in our line-up. Deep fly ball to left and I go back, back, back, and leap upwards with glove raised to snare the ball. Ball meets leather, my face meets the top rail of the the outfield chain-link fence, and ball pops out of glove on the opposite side of the fence for an opponent's home-run. I recoiled from the impact, head bent down, spitting blood. Lacerated the inside surfaces of both lips, but no broken teeth. Unfortunately, I had to be removed from the game immediately. Sat the bench the rest of the game, watching my team lose 1-0 to the team that would go on to win the Michigan Little League World Series, and advanced to the regional Little League qualifier (where they would lose).

That was forty years ago, but I still can remember it clearly, like it was yesterday.