
(Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, 1950)
Little Timmy: I’ll trade ya a Joey D card for your Babe Ruth jersey!
Little Johnny: Are you crazy?! That’s the Babe’s old jersey, Timmy! Keep dreamin’. Besides, my old man says this Mantle fella will be ten times the player Joey D ever was!
Little Timmy: Your old man is drinkin’ Tiger Eye at the docks again!
Little Johnny: Heyyyy, we’ll have words, tough guy!
Little Vinny: Hey you guys! You put those marbles down and come play some stickball with us! You don’t come now, you’ll have to watch us from the stoop of old man Palermo’s shop!
Little Johnny: Okay, but this time, any ball that hits Palermo’s sign count as a homer!
Little Vinny: Oh, fine.
Little Johnny: And little Duane can’t play!
Little Vinny: Don’t worry about it. I heard his ma took him to the aquarium today. We won’t have to worry about him!
(ground rumbles)
Little Johnny: What was that? You hear that, Vinny?
Little Vinny: I did! You hear that, Timmy?
Little Timmy: I did! What could it be?
(playground flies open)







