Let us just step back: two hundred and fifty years ago, or so, the ships of England and Spain had drifted onto a whole new continent, as they saw it, from far north to a savagely cold south; pole to pole, as if there were such things. Millions of people already lived here, some of them still hunters and gatherers; some of them very wealthy, indeed! Gold and silver stolen from the southern Americas funded Spanish and English dreams. There was land, lots of land, under starry skies above, rich land, and oil and coal and iron ore. The whole western world learned how to build industries not on simple muscle power, but on steam and oil. We farmed, too, of course. All we needed was cheap labor--slave labor from Africa, mostly, so the ships came with slave labor. Chinese labor built railroad beds where there had been rock cliffs. Europeans, long used to killing each other for good, religious reasons, brought their religious savagery with them. ...
Photos: 1) Third baseman Pigpen Price tags the runner John Mathews, who beats the throw to third. 2) Roger Beebe 3) Tim Boyd 4) The hitter Bob Daliege takes off for first base 5) First baseman Dave Byars holds on to the ball for the out 6) Mike Steele 7) The birthday boy, Dennis Crowley 8) outfielder Phil Gordon prepares to toss the ball back to the infield 9) Dan Lundwall 10) The ball is in the glove of first baseman Dave Byars, just a step ahead of the runner Bob Daliege 11) Big John Mathews gloves an errant throw and steps on the base for the out. 12) Dave Byars takes a break and eyes the action. 13) Pitcher Lloyd Barzell unleashes a pitch as umpire Ron Petersen gets set to call the pitch. 14) Doc Thompson unleashes a fastball. 15) Runner Tim Boyd hustles to first base and beats the throw. 16) John Mathews in shades.
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