Larson: Welcome to Boomer baseball

When I was a kid in Chicago, playing baseball in the vacant lot across from my house, (in my neighborhood we called it the prairie) there would come a time in midsummer when the baseball would be so good, the fun would be so intense, the spirit of the game would be so all-consuming, that we just didn’t want the sun to go down. If we could just freeze those last minutes of light, the game could go on and on — forever.

And that’s baseball. It is the only game where time doesn’t matter. It is the only game where if one hits good enough, if one plays good enough, the game could go on forever.

And I think that is why baseball captures the imagination. In some form or another, we all would like the game to go on forever. We all would like to freeze the light, stop the sun from going down, and recapture and keep that feeling of boyhood, or girlhood that we all knew, and be able to laugh, and play and be with good friends in the warm summer of our lives.

Baseball does that. Certainly here at Boomer Field in Schaumburg it does that.

This is the way it should be. About family and friends and sunlight and summer. About being safe — and coming home.

Welcome to Boomer baseball — right here in Schaumburg.

Al Larson

Village President

Village of Schaumburg