'em in the head with a stick, I'm asking for a transfer to the State Department. Hush, Jay, be serious, Uncle Richie said.

That night Uncle Richie and Uncle Jay took me out bowling duckpins. We bowled three games and Uncle Richie bowled 102, 111 and 98 and I bowled 78, 74 and 90 and got two spares in my last game that Uncle Richie said was real good. Uncle Jay bowled 94, 86 and 84. I beat him the last game. Uncle Richie took me back to the apartment and went back out again after I went to bed. I woke up again when Uncle Richie and Uncle Jay came in making a lot of noise and neither one of them could walk so good. I guess they must of been sore and tired from all those games we bowled. They closed their door and I went back to sleep.

After breakfast Uncle Richie asked did I want to play some catch with him and I did. He and Uncle Jay had these two gloves and a ball he said he caught at a game out at Griffith Stadium and we went out in the alley back of the house and played catch. Boy, Uncle Richie throws a swell curve and he taught me how. Uncle Jay sat up in the apartment and drank mineral water. I guess he must have a lot of headaches. After a while Uncle Richie and I quit catching and had sandwiches for lunch and went out to Griffith Stadium. Uncle Jay went to the game too. He must of got over his headache because he was real funny and happy like and I started liking him better. Uncle Richie bought me a real professional baseball cap with a white W that cost a dollar and a quarter. Boy, it was real swell. It got cloudy after we got to our seats and Uncle Richie showed me Yogi Berra and Billy Martin and all the Yankees, and the President was there too. The ball game hadn't been going long when

it poured down. We were sitting in the grandstand but it blew in so bad that we got just as wet as if we had been sitting in the bleachers and the President left. And the rain stopped and they got ready to play again and it rained again. Uncle Jay said he'd be darned if he was going to sit there all cold and wet and miserable to please anybody or their nephew when there was a bottle and a hot bath available at the apartment. I guess his headache must of come back and he was talking about the mineral water. Well then go home Uncle Richie said and he sounded kind of mad. And Uncle Jay went. Then Uncle Richie asked me didn't I want to see the rest of the double header. I was pretty cold and wet but I guessed Uncle Richie wanted to see the games pretty bad, so I told him yes. When they got ready to play again the water was so deep in the outfield they had to open up some drainpipes. The men who went out to open the drains up had to wade knee deep in the water. Finally they started playing again and the Yankees won both games. I didn't enjoy it much. It must of been after ten o'clock when we got back to the apartment.

Uncle Jay said he was sorry he said and did what he did at the ball game and he had some sandwiches and a hot bath ready for me and I bathed and ate. Uncle Richie said he was real nice to be so thoughtful of me, and they made up. After I got out of the tub I heard Uncle Jay saying I don't know what the heck gets into me, Richie, imagine being jealous of a kid like that. I don't know what he meant but a lot of times I didn't understand what Uncle Jay was talking about. Sometimes he could be real nice though. I went to sleep real quick that night and when I got up Sunday morning Uncle Richie and Uncle Jay had breakfast already ready.

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