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# First Game
- URL: https://www.andyposner.org/first-game/
- Published: 2026-09-28T19:58:40.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-28T20:36:28.000Z
- Author: Andy Posner

There in the back of the closet  
of the room that was once my room  
and is now a museum to childhood  
is a photo, slightly curled with age,  
of ten scrawny kids in awkward poses,  
baseball gloves stretched out as if  
to catch a ball just out of view;

and there in left field am I, shielding  
the sun with my glove, tracking  
the fly ball, an ice cream truck playing  
its melodies, metal bats ringing on  
nearby fields, Dad in the stands  
watching intently, the catch made,  
inning over, running back to the  
dugout proud and carefree...  
Where, where have I gone?

But there in left field my son,  
handsome in his crisp white pants,  
his teal NP Gators jersey, waits,  
a whole life ahead of him, oh,  
I will frame this image, I will  
keep it safe in its glass frame  
so one day, looking for something  
serious, he might chance upon  
the boy who loved playing games.