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My Story, Chapter 1 by Matt West - We rode our bikes to practices and games, and created our own games on the streets and yards of our neighborhood. No matter what sport I played, I always dreamed of playing in MLB, the NBA or the NFL. I played in plenty of Super Bowls in my front yard, and my Mom even let me put chalk lines on our lawn. 
Playing for Keeps by Kerry Temple, University of Notre Dame ’74 - I spied them on a distant field on the far edge of the vast athletic complex — one of those grand suburban facilities with multiple diamonds and an ocean of green-grass soccer fields with armies of brightly jerseyed children racing, chasing and kicking.