In tribute to Le Roy “Lee” Hammer
Livingston, NJ
1920-2006
The lady from down the street,
when I meet her someplace
an elementary school friend
asked about him.
“He always had his baseball uniform on”,
“Day and night as we played in the neighborhood
it was a part of him
as much as his hands,”
“I wondered whether he slept in it,”.
Baseball.
His was a generation of [...]
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