Batboy

Yup. I batboy. My brother resented it. He tripped me and pushed me in front of a batter and I was hit by a baseball and had my ear ripped off. Six stitches to sew it back on. Lenny didn’t see it and we never talked about it.

Len Duckman Died 55 Years Ago

My Father died on Father’s day June 16, 1963. I was 7 when we learned he was sick and 15 when he died. Hard to celebrate and difficult to discuss.

He died before he was supposed to, only 54. He wouldn’t talk to me about it, except to say he was dying from Leukemia.  That’s the way it was in 1963.

I lit a yahrzeit candle for him. I know no one else did. The family had long since stopped being a family. So it goes. So it goes.