文章基本信息

标题：A Different World.
作者：Smith, Ron
期刊名称：Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature
印刷版ISSN：1048-3756
出版年度：2012
期号：March
语种：English
出版社：Sports Literature Association

摘要：

 A Different World     We had it easier, harder back then when it was simpler,    more complicated, no steroids, no pitching machines,    no weight training, no trips to the sawbones for a pissant    concussion, no by God Gatoraid--hell, no water at practice,    no cable TV, no distractions, Internet, multitasking,    no rules against the crackback block or spearing, no    cortisone shots, batting gloves, closers, bean counters.    Never had a coach who really knew hitting, fielding,     a coach who played croquet with my parents, attended    my boring Methodist church, knew my grades, all my friends.    Parents said play or not, your choice, and left me for dead    in a frog rich ditch until 6 pm supper which I rose on time for    every summercampless day and before steaming which    I bowed my head in sincere, simulated thanks.

Reprinted from Aethlon Volume 26:1

A Different World.

Smith, Ron

A Different World

   We had it easier, harder back then when it was simpler,
   more complicated, no steroids, no pitching machines,
   no weight training, no trips to the sawbones for a pissant
   concussion, no by God Gatoraid--hell, no water at practice,
   no cable TV, no distractions, Internet, multitasking,
   no rules against the crackback block or spearing, no
   cortisone shots, batting gloves, closers, bean counters.
   Never had a coach who really knew hitting, fielding,

   a coach who played croquet with my parents, attended
   my boring Methodist church, knew my grades, all my friends.
   Parents said play or not, your choice, and left me for dead
   in a frog rich ditch until 6 pm supper which I rose on time for
   every summercampless day and before steaming which
   I bowed my head in sincere, simulated thanks.

Reprinted from Aethlon Volume 26:1