In my time also, you could walk outside with a ball, a bat or a basketball or in the winter with a hockey stick and skates and always scare up a game or what resembled a game in no time. Sayonara the old America.
Same here...
Today, though, everything has to be organized...an association...a director...schedules...
Kids today would not recognize the word “sandlot”...
I miss the days when a six year old kid could walk 1/2 mile home from school and the parents not worrying or panicking over something happening...
Heck; we kids could just...
...WALK OUTSIDE period!!
Now the world calls that FreeRanging children.