Voice from the Commonwealth Commentary, World Views and Occasional Rants from a small 'l' libertarian in Massachussetts
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Afghan kids are getting into baseball with the help of some Special Forces guys.
The field was dust, not grass; the players wore knee-length shirts, not uniforms; and there was no seventh-inning stretch. But Friday's baseball game was still Trecognizable as the most American of pastimes, even without the beer and hot dogs.
Cheered on by their U.S. Army Special Forces coaches and with Take Me Out to the Ball Game blaring from a loudspeaker, two teams of Afghan boys, ages 10 to 16, play every week before an ever-growing audience of curious Afghan villagers.
And of course, being the complete antithesis of the Taliban, not what the hate-America screechers want you to hear, they are already working on a girls league.
Just off the first-base line, 7-year-old Hatira tossed a ball with anyone who would play. She is the first girl in Urgun with her own glove, said Smith. The soldiers hope to form a girls league as more equipment becomes available.
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