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FATHERS, SONS, AND THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME
AND
ONE OF THE GREATEST BROADWAY MONOLOGS EVER

FATHERS, SONS,
AND THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME

“During the winter of 1993, workers at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown , New York, made a remarkable, heartwarming discovery.

While renovating a section of the museum, they found a photograph that had been hidden in a crevice underneath a display case.

The man in the picture has a bat resting on his shoulders; he's wearing a uniform with the words “Sinclair Oil” printed across the chest; his demeanor is gentle and friendly.

Stapled to the picture is a note, scribbled in pen by an adoring fan.

The note reads:

“You were never too tired to play ball.
On your days off, you helped build the Little League field.

You always came to watch me play.
You were a Hall of Fame Dad.

I wish I could share this moment with you.”

Your son,
Peter

A son named Peter found a creative way to put his dad in the Hall of Fame.”

-- written by Robert Lewis and cited in Real Family Values

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ONE OF THE GREATEST BROADWAY MONOLOGS EVER

On March 31, 1977, a play opened on Broadway title, “The Shadow Box.” It was written by Michael Cristofer.

That year it won the Tony Award for best play and the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
The play focuses on three terminally ill patients in a hospice.

“One of the most touching moments of the play is when one of the characters says....

Your whole life goes by and it feels like only a minute.

You try to remember what it was you believed in.

What was so important?

What was it?

You wanted to make a difference.

And then you think, someone should have said it sooner.

Someone should have said it a long time ago.

When we were young, someone should have said, “This living. This life.

This lifetime doesn't last forever. A few days. A few minutes, that's all.”

This face.

These hands.

This world.

It doesn't last forever.

This air.

This light.

This earth.

These things you love.

These children.

This smile.

This pain.

It doesn't last forever.

It was never supposed to last forever.

These things you have.

This moment.

They will not last forever.”

-- from: “The Shadow Box.” written by Michael Cristofer.

Dr. Rob Gilbert with Joe DePalma

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