Get Well and I’ll Meet You on the Astro Turf
to go outside for lunch. For those not in the know, it doesn’t really matter how cold or rainy the weather is, outside almost always looks like a better option than the cafeteria of a New York City public school. Grab your coat, take the brown bag your mother packed, and head for the great outdoors. In the Bronx it’s mostly paved. No matter. We used those lunch hours to talk about sports and music, to play football (two-hand touch), basketball, or whiffle ball, and to watch other kids fight. Richie, myself, and several other youngens ended up forging a long lasting friendship during those lunch hours, both at 141 and later at John F. Kennedy High School. One of the things that first brought us together was a love of sports. Early forays into gambling on it were complemented by endless discussions about it: in class, during lunch, after school, in the bowling alley, at the pool hall, or just walking down the street. When you grow up in New York, you do a lot of walking down the street.
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