Playing Softball in Combat Boots

Back in the late 1960’s I spent three years in the US Army. After spending 14-months in South Korea, I was reassigned to Germany which was like going to a party for 16-months compared to Korea. I was stationed at a Nike-Hercules Guided Missile Battery located in the middle of nowhere. We did however have a softball team which I wasn’t on.

 

One day, our battery had an “away game” but they were one player short of a team. The team captain asked me if I could play third base. I told him I could but I didn’t have any softball equipment, not even shoes. He said they had plenty of softball gloves, but I would have to wear my own footgear. So, I played my first softball game in Germany wearing combat boots. We lost 8-3…  

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