by Jeff Fleischer
In the fall, I wrote “Granddad’s Ballgame,” a humor story in what I call a “front porch” style, and The Saturday Evening Post published it yesterday.
An excerpt:
When my Granddad was just a boy, to hear him tell it, there were only three things he ever wanted to do in his life. One was to get the girl who lived on the farm catty-corner to take a shine to him. Another was to see the world, or at least some part of the world outside Indiana. The third was to make a ballplayer out of himself.
![Baseball in a mitt](https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/wp-content/uploads/satevepost/2016-08-26-baseball-glove.jpg)