. yeah," her eyes glazed over. "He uh ... um ... Mom once told me that before she was born, he and grandma drove all night to St. Louis and he tried out for the Cardinals. I think he may have actually made it to a ... what do the call them? A tryout team?" Farm league?" I helped."Yeah. Now I remember. It was 1941, and I think he went on the road and played half a season—"I cut her off, "Then Japan attacked Pearl Harbor." Yeah. Grandpa joined the Army on December 9th. He was so proud of that." Alex was crying, "Now that I think about it, I think maybe he used his pride in serving to cover showing how much he missed baseball."I couldn't stop myself. I reached up and cupped her chin in my right hand, wiping her tears with my thumb. I didn't say anything."He bought me my first baseball mitt," she sobbed. "He taught me to catch."I quit fighting and just pulled her into my chest, rubbing her back, quietly letting her cry into my t-shirt. "Shhhh. It's okay. He sounds like a very good. It seemed so long ago now to the young eighteen year old girl called Selena by most and bitch behind her back by certain female poor souls that envied her good looks. It was hard to think back on that long-ago time when she followed her wide-eyed sister Clementine up high into the mountains to join the mail-order bride customer who had agreed to allow the younger sister to accompany the new twenty year old prospective spouse into the high country.Selena was only seven when she made that first arduous journey up the steep grades of the mountain chain to her new home to a nearby farming community of mostly Slaughter kin eking out a living far above the sweet bottom land spoken for by supposed civilized folk. It was populated by educated folks with book learning and lots of hidden cash to tide them over when times were bad. Her mother was healthy in those early days and was eager to please her new husband. She told her daughters to never speak out loud unless they were spoken to by an.
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