Fathers Playing Catch With Sons

Fathers Playing Catch with SonsMarch 1, 1973But I don't want to go. Work feels good. I am writing poems again. I don't want to leave Michigan in March, go to Florida and run around bases all day in a baseball uniform making an ass of myself.Three months ago, Gerry McCauley, my agent, asked me to spend a week of spring training with the Pittsburgh Pirates. I accepted, knowing that things like this never happen. Gerry daydreams a lot. This time his plan is to have me, a poet, himself, and other au...