To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
-Mary Oliver
-Mary Oliver
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Monticello Florida April 25 8:30 PM 1934
Postage was 3 cents and the image is an etched NRA stamp "in a common determination" to: Miss Anna Botts 521 W 11th Street Newport, Kentucky.
Letterhead: Hotel Clinchfield Spartenburg, S.C. Hotel Washington is scratched out and Monticello.- Fla. is written
Dearest Ange:
Have not heard from you for a few days. Couldn't find much time to write fron New Symrna Fla. because we got into the town, played and was on our way again. We defeated tarpon Springs 18- 2. I got two out of five. last night we defeated New Symrna 14- 0. I only got four for five. Two home runs, a triple and a double. I am leading the team in batting so far. We drove all night to reach here. This is a small town of about 1900 people. It is only 13 mi. from the Georgia State line. Tomorrow we got way back up into Florida again. We have gone over 3000 miles already. If anybody ever asks me if I've seen Florida I'll tell them to go to h----. I'll be glad when we get out of this state. Please excuse the writing paper because this is all I could pick up at present. On the way over last night we killed a dog. We was going about 50 mi. and hr and the dog ran out in the middle of the road and set down. He looked right at us. We couldn't stop so we hit him. If we had tried to stop to avoid hitting him we might have turned over. It sounded like when you hit your hands together. I got a letter from Vince yesterday and will write to him as soon as I can. You, tell him, will you if you see him. This hotel we are sleeping at looks like the last rose of summer. It is the only one in town. The boys were throwing pots around in the halls and Glenn fixed Sroufe's bed so when he would lay in it, it would fall apart. He didn't lay in it though. Instead he threw a pillow on it and it fell apart. This hotel isn't the worst one we have stayed at yet. we stayed at one hotel on the way up the boys called "the roach hotel." They were running roaches around the hotel all night with baseball bats. This ballfield we are playing at tonight is terrible. They use a 14 in. outseam ball and have lights inside of dispans for reflectors. The handles are still on the dispans. There is a hole for the pitchers box you could lay down in. well, Ange, haven't much more to write about just now so I will close hoping to hear from you as soon as possible. Love & kisses Guy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx P.S. Tell mother art,Ed, Aunt, Sarah, & rest hello.
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