With a wad of pickled plum chewing gum stuck behind my ear, I picked up a peck of blossoms and laced up my cleats.

Tomorrow is the first day of spring training for my plum blossom baseball league…I’m kind of nervous because the gangsters chose me to make the balls for this season…why me?  because Charlie moved to Las Vegas to make plum pit balls for Pete’s Pachinko Parlour…I’m nervous because I don’t quite know the ratio of plum blossoms to pickled plum chewing gum…I mean, Charlie showed me…but that was so long ago…they are a little too sticky…I hope they don’t stick to the bats…