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Wednesday, September
22, 2004
Headlines---
Classified
Ads---Sr. Credit Officer/Sr.Management
Charlie
Lester sells LPI— then has a stroke two months later; no joke
Looking
for...Robert J. Fine...Brian Boys
Just
released—“Power Tools For Small
Ticket Leasing 2004”
DVI
Certified Corporate Meltdown
Raeder Won't Reveal Name---Story Tomorrow
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Correction: In Yesterday’s “Salesman’s Pay Survey” several
readers said they could not read the cartoon due to its size.
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Senior Credit Officer
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Senior Management:
Baltimore, MD
25 year veteran of
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Experienced in $7 + billion dollar portfolios. Verifiable achievements.
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Senior Management:
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Credit executive, portfolio manager and syndication facilitator. Extensive business building experience in small and mid-ticket operations. Highly innovative. Fortune 100 audit and technology skills. Bottom-line manager.
Email: lenhubbard@bigfoot.com
Senior Management:
Long Island, NY
Degree Banking/Finance. 13 years leasing exp. Now prez young leasing company where promises were not met. Interested in joining established firm with future.
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Senior Management:
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Senior Management: San Francisco, CA.,
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Charlie
Lester sells LPI— then has a stroke two months later; no joke
(Charlie Lester, taken on Father's Day, with his oldest
daughter Sharon Hess on the left, and his youngest
daughter Melanie Milligan)
Leasing Icon Charlie
Lester told us we can now release the news:
"#1. I am at the office most of the time, but I
nap a lot.
"#2. Yes--I will be happy to write articles for
Leasing News in the
format you request.
"#3. I feel good, not great, but good."
A former Leasing
News board advisor and a contributing writer with
much inside news
has agreed now that he is retired to write a weekly
column, in addition
to taking naps at his office.
"Thank you for
holding the news. As you know,
in mid-July, I had a mild stroke that put me in the hospital for a few
days. In plain English, I have had a "rapid
heart" since my early 20's, but like most medical conditions, it
has gotten worse with age and it finally caught up with me in July.
"The recovery
was complete as far as we can tell and the doctors are
controlling the irregular
heart beat with medication for the time being. If it does get any worse,
they will install a pacemaker which only takes about 25 minutes with
an entry through the neck. In my situation, it took more time than I
would have imagined to get my mindset back to positive thinking and
rebuilding the stamina level took almost two months
"Like every
bad situation, some good has come of it. The weight is down to somewhere
below the Pillsbury Doughboy for a change and my wife Barbara makes
sure my eating habits are healthier. With the loving support of my family
and God's grace, life is pretty much back to normal and I expect to
be around for a long time."
Charlie Lester is
President of LPI Financial Services located in
Marietta, GA and
has been in the leasing industry since leaving IBM in
1984. In 1986, he
founded Lease Pro, Inc. specializing in leasing for
the medical profession.
In 1997, Lease Pro was acquired by First Sierra
Financial. In 1999,
he resigned from First Sierra and started LPI after
sitting out his non-compete
period. Since 2000, LPI in conjunction with
one of the most respected
funding sources in the industry has offered a unique one of a kind working
capital loan program to medical
professionals through
brokers, consultants and direct client marketing.
We featured his company
in Pictures from the Past:
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/September%202004/9-20-04.htm#pic
He has also contributed
to Sunday Sermon's:
http://www.leasingnews.org/Sunday_sermon/Receptionist2.htm
And featured articles:
http://www.leasingnews.org/articles.doc/newsletter3.htm
http://www.leasingnews.org/Conscious-Top%20Stories/Fraud_charges-RW.htm
http://www.leasingnews.org/archives/July%202003/7-07-03.htm#take
Charlie graduated
with a Master's Degree in accounting from Virginia Tech in 1965 and
became a CPA in 1966 shortly before going to work in sales for IBM.
After 18 years in sales and sales management in six different cities,
he resigned from IBM in 1984 to raise his family in Atlanta. In 1985,
a friend introduced him to the world of equipment leasing, and on May
17,2004 he sold the assets of LPI Financial Services to LPI Healthcare Financial
Services.
" We have not
made this public knowledge since we wanted to make the transition to
the new ownership before any announcement," he told Leasing News.
" Here we are four months later and I doubt very seriously if our
sources know about the change since it has gone so well without even
so much as a hiccup. The sources are the same, the funding source
is the same and the program is the same.
What more could a transition want?
"For a little
background, LPI Healthcare is owned by Kurt Hess, who is
President and heads
up sales with Kay Smith as the VP who manages the administrative functions. Add Kristen Meers who oversees the credit functions
and you have the 3-K's.
"To say the
least, I am extremely proud of the 3-K's.
Kurt is my son-in-law who has been with LPI for 4 years and has
demonstrated an uncanny ability to communicate well with our broker
and consultant data base. Kay
has been with me for the past 10 years and there is no better documentation
and funding manager to be found. Kristen is doing a great job of managing
the credit piece since taking over earlier this year.
To top off the K issue, our super funding source contact's name
starts with a K.
"Since the sale
in May, funded volume has been consistently higher than it was when
I ran the company which shows you what imagination, youth and energy
will do for you. I make a few
contributions on the company direction as a consultant, but the 3-K's
are the company and deserve the credit.
They are good to the point I am beginning to dislike them.
"Barbara is
a Stephen Minister and I am on the Board of Trustees of our church as
well as being on the Cobb County Civil Service Board.
A Stephen Minister is a non-denominational "lay" minister
who is assigned to be the spiritual care giver on an "as needed
basis" for someone going through a crisis in their life. The Board
of Trustees helps manage and protect the assets of the church.
The Civil Service Board hears cases and make judgments when Cobb
County employees feel they have not been treated fairly by the department
they work for.
"You asked me
about retirement? Since I call
myself a consultant now, the answer is "yes and no' and I can justify
either answer. I'll take on any project that I know nothing about since
I do not want to be confused with facts. The real answer, I am slowing
up a bit, but if I ever totally stop, it will be time to send flowers
and sympathy cards. I have too many friends in our industry to harass."
( And we look forward
to his weekly column, where our only direction was: not to write about politics, religion, or sex, in that alphabetical
order of significance. Anything
else he has free rein to comment about. Editor.)
Charlie’s e-mail
address: clester@lpifinancial.com
Looking for...
Robert J. Fine. Several attorneys have requested information
to serve him for his action at NorVengence but have not been able to
locate him. Anyone who knows the city-state where he lives or birth
date, they may be able to locate the right Fine as they have found 117
Robert J. Fines, but evidently not the right one.
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“Kit
I have been trying to contact Brian Boys of Firstcredit in Florida and
nothing works, phone ,fax or email. I know the hurricane hit him almost
head on. Could you put up a posting if anybody has heard from him and
if he is okay.”
Phil
Dushey
Global
Financial Services
17 State Street
New York NY 10004
Email phil@globaleasing.com
Phone 212-480-4900
Philip Dushey
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DVI
Certified Corporate Meltdown
Even as top executives
of DVI were vouching for its earnings report - a post-Enron mandate
- the firm was spiraling into the 13th-biggest bankruptcy of 2003.
( send by a reader from the Philadelphia Inquirer)
http://www.leasingnews.org/PDF/Certified%20Corporate%20Meltdown.pdf
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News
Briefs----
Fed Keeps Nudging
Up Key Rate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38661-2004Sep21.html
Housing construction
climbs in August to highest level since March
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/
Oil nears key benchmark:
$50 per barrel
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/
Visit by Maria Shriver
kicks off expansion of mentoring program
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/
20040921-2229-shriver-staff.html
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Sports
Briefs---
Happiness for Yanks
Is a Giambi Home Run
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/22/sports/baseball/22yanks.html
Bellhorn delivers
a crucial K-O's punch: Big hit in ninth rallies Sox to 3-2 win
http://redsox.bostonherald.com/redSox/view.bg?articleid=45382
A Season to Forget
Continues for Woods
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/22/sports/golf/22golf.html
Belichick fillets
Tuna: Powerful coach can rip Parcells
http://patriots.bostonherald.com/patriots/view.bg?articleid=45214
Raiders by Three
on Sunday
http://www.buccaneers.com/news/newsdetail.aspx?newsid=4051
Shula backs Belichick:
Downplaying streak is perfect approach
http://patriots.bostonherald.com/patriots/view.bg?articleid=45372&format=
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“Gimme
that Wine”
Winery, analysts
at odds--
Mondavi estimates its sale properties at up to $500 million
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/
2004/09/21/BUGI18S4DB1.DTL&type=business
Two Prominent Stemware
Producers Merge; Riedel Crystal Buys
Spiegelau
http://www.winespectator.com/Wine/Daily/News/0,1145,2604,00.html
Colorado wines gain
in market share
http://www.summitdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/
Dick Reno at Chateau
Lafayette Reneau doesn’t care if consumers won’t swallow the $49.99
bottle price he slapped on his 2001 Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon.
http://www.fltimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=38&SubSectionID
Searching for fairness
or "the right price" is a sucker's deal; look instead for
good bargains
http://www.oregonlive.com/living/oregonian/matt_kramer/index.ssf?/
base/living/109524982046620.xml
''Cantina Bostonia"
red wines, priced at less than $10 a bottle
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/
2004/09/19/our_grapes_no_but_purely_our_wine/
Wine Train Woodinville
Washington
http://wine.about.com/od/washingtonstate/a/columbia.htm
October 15 A Grand
Tasting of 1982 Bordeaux Imperiales in S.F.
http://www.vino.com/press/press_release.asp?PRID=426
Virginia Chardonnay
grape tastes like before its turned into wine? Find out at Farfelu Vineyards'
Great Grape Festival October 9-11.
http://www.vino.com/press/press_release.asp?PRID=428
Virginia One Weekend,
10 Wineries, 10 Special Events October 9-11
http://www.vino.com/press/press_release.asp?PRID=429
This
Day in American History
In the Northern Hemisphere,
autumn begins today with the autumnal equinox, at 1:27 PM, EDT. Note
that in the Southern Hemisphere today is the beginning of spring. Everywhere
on Earth (except near the poles) the sun rises due east and sets due
west and daylight length is nearly identical--about 12 hours, 8 minutes.
1734-The
Moravian settlement in America began with the arrival of George Boehnischt
in Pennsylvania. The following year, a group of Moravians led by Augustus
Gottlieb Spangenberg came to Georgia for the purpose of converting Native
Americans. Their first church was built in 1735 in Savannah, GA, where
General James Edward Oglethorpe had given 600 acres of land for a colony.
Bishop David Nitschmann arrived from Germany in 1736 and ordained Anton
Sieffert, as pastor, the first ordination by a Protestant bishop in
America. The group soon relocated to Pennsylvania and built a settlement
in Bethlehem, PA, in 1741. Spangenberg
became the Oravians’ first American bishop in 1744.
Moravians are followers of Jan Hus, the 15th-century
Bohemian religious reformer, and call themselves, the Church of the
Bretheren, Or Unitas Fratrum.
http://www.moravianjamaica.org/about_us.htm
http://www.everydaycounselor.com/archives/sh/shistory.htm
http://www.redeemermoravian.org/vision.htm
1777-Tacy’s
Richardson’s Ride: Courageous 23-year-old Tacy Richardson (Jan 1, 1754-June
18, 1807) rode her favorite horse, "Fearnaught," several perilous
miles from the family farm at Montgomery County, PA to the James Vaux
mansion to warn General George Washington of the approach of British
troops led by General William Howe. As it turned out, the British crossing
of the Schuylkill at Gordon's Ford was a feint to deceive Washington
who indeed hastily withdrew to Pottstown, clearing the way for General
Howe to spend that night in the quarters Washington had occupied only
a few hours earlier.
1776
– Captain Nathan Hale of Connecticut was executed by the
British in New York
City for spying. Before he was
hanged he said, “ I only regret that I have but one life to lose for
my country.”
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep22.html
1789-The
U.S. Created the Office of Postmaster General, following the Departments
of State, War and Treasury.
1862-Emancipation
Proclamation---One of the most important presidential proclamations
of American history is that of Sept 22, 1862, in which Abraham Lincoln,
by executive proclamation, freed the slaves in the rebelling states.
"That on . . . [Jan 1, 1863] . . . all persons held as slaves within
any state or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then
be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward,
and forever, free. . . ." The "13th Amendment officially declared
the abolition of slavery in all states.
( lower half of:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/sep22.html
)
1903-
Italy Marchiony applied for his patent for his new mold which was filled
with Ice Cream and is credited with inventing the Ice Cream Cone.
He immigrated from Italy in the late 1800’s and went into business
in New York City with a pushcart dispensing lemon ice. Success soon
led to a small fleet of pushcarts, and the inventive Marchiony was inspired
to develop a cone, first made of paper, later of pastry, to hold the
ices and then vanilla and chocolate ice cream.
1922-
with the passage of the Cable Act, women who married foreign citizens
kept their US citizenship. Up to that point, American-born women automatically
lost their US citizenship if they married a foreign man. At no time
in the history of the United State could men have lost their citizenship.
1927-Still
talked about today as the “long count”, the world championship boxing
match between Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney at Soldier Field, Chicago,
IL. It was the largest fight
purse in the history of boxing at the time, nearly $1 million dollars.
Nearly half the population of the US is believed to have listened
to the radio broadcast of this fight. In the seventh round of the 10-round fifth,
Tunney was knocked down. Following the rules, Referee Dave Barry interrupted
the count when Dempsey failed to go to the farthest corner. The count
was resumed and Tunney got to his feet at the count of nine. Stopwatch
records of those present claimed the total elapsed time from the beginning
of the count until Tunney got to his feet at 12-15 seconds. Tunney,
awarded seven of the 10 rounds, won the fifth and claimed the world
championship. Dempsey’s appeal was denied and he never
fought again. Tunney retired the following year after one
more (successful) fight.
1937
- On the Brunswick label, Red Norvo and his orchestra recorded the "Russian
Lullaby". Later Norvo would do a more famous work with a recording
including singer Dinah Shore.
1955 - The film, “To Hell and Back,” starring World War II hero
Audie Murphy, premiered in New York on this date.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/to_hell_and_back/cast_crew.php
1956---Top
Hits
Canadian Sunset -
Hugo Winterhalter & Eddie Heywood
Whatever Will Be
Will Be (Que Sera Sera) - Doris Day
Be-Bop-a-Lula - Gene
Vincent & His Blue Caps
Don’t Be Cruel/Hound
Dog - Elvis Presley
1957-
Duke Snider hits his 40th home run tying him with Ralph Kiner for having
five consecutive 40+ homer seasons in the National League.
http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees
http://www.thebaseballpage.com/past/pp/sniderduke/
1957-“Maverick”
premiered on television. ( yes, my father Lawrence Menkin wrote several
of these episodes as well as other Western television shows ).
This popular western,
which has since been remade into a popular movie, starred James Garner
as Bret Maverick, a clever man who preferred card playing to fighting.
A second Maverick was introduced when production was behind schedule--Jack
Kelly played his brother Bart. Garner and Kelly played most episodes
separately, and when Garner left in 1961, Kelly was in almost all the
episodes. Other performers included Roger Moore, Robert Colbert and
Diane Brewster. This western distinguished itself by its light touch
and parody of other westerns.
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-1020
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/
1961-The
first judge of a federal district court who was African-American was
Judge James Benton Parsons, who was sworn in at Chicago, Il, as U. S.
district judge for the Northern District of Illinois.
1964
- Robert Vaughn starred as Napoleon Solo when "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."
debuted on NBC-TV this night. Solo’s trusty side-kick in this James
Bond spoof was Illya Kuryakin, played by David McCallum. The show was
a hit for 3½ seasons.
http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/
showid-3323/The_Man_From_UNCLE/
1964---Top
Hits
The House of the
Rising Sun - The Animals
Bread and Butter
- The Newbeats
Oh, Pretty Woman
- Roy Orbison
I Guess I’m Crazy
- Jim Reeves
1964
- The lights lowered, the curtain rose and Zero Mostel stepped into
the spotlight as the fiddler played. “Tra-a--a-dition,” he sang, as
he began the first of 3,242 performances and "Fiddler on the Roof"
opened on Broadway at the Imperial Theater.. It became the first musical
to run for more than 3,000 performances, based on stories by the Yiddish
writer Sholem Aleichem ( pen name of Sholem Yakov Rabinowitz). Zero Mostel took the part of Tevye. It was presented by Harold Prince,
with choreography of Jerome Robbins, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by
Sheldon Hamick and book by Joseph Stein.
1965-
San Francisco rock group, the Great Society with singer Grace Slick,
makes its stage debut at the Coffee Gallery in North Beach, California.
1967-
The Beatles appear on the cover of Time Magazine.
1968-
The Twins' Cesar Tovar is the second major leaguer to play one inning
at each position. In 1965, A's Bert Campaneris became the first.
1972---Top
Hits
Black & White
- Three Dog Night
Baby Don’t Get Hooked
on Me - Mac Davis
Saturday in the Park
- Chicago
When the Snow is
on the Roses - Sonny James
1973
- Henry Kissinger took the oath as U.S. Secretary of State. This was
the first time a naturalized citizen had held this office. Only in America...
1976—“Charlie’s
Angels” Premiere. This extremely
popular show of the '70s featured three attractive women, usually scantily-dressed,
solving crimes. Sabrina Duncan (Kate Jackson), Jill Munroe (Farrah Fawcett-Majors)
and Kelly Garrett (Jaclyn Smith) signed on with detective agency Charles
Townsend Associates. Their boss was never seen, only heard (the voice
of John Forsythe); messages were communicated to the women by his associate
John Bosley (David Doyle). During the course of the series, Cheryl Ladd
replaced Fawcett, Shelley Hack and Tanya Roberts succeeded Kate Jackson.
http://www.tvtome.com/CharliesAngels/
http://www.charliesangels.com/
1980---Top
Hits
Upside Down - Diana
Ross
All Out of Love -
Air Supply
Another One Bites
the Dust - Queen
Lookin’ for Love
- Johnny Lee
1982—“Family
Ties” premiers on TV. This popular 80s sitcom was set at Columbus, OH
and focused on the Keaton family: Ex-hippies Elyse (Meredith Baxter-Birney),
an architect, and Steven (Michael Gross), a station manager of the local
public TV station; Alex (Michael J. Fox), their smart, conservative
and financially-driven son; Mallory (Justine Bateman), their materialistic,
ditzy daughter and Jennifer (Tina Yothers), their tomboy youngest daughter.
Later in the series Elyse gave birth to Andrew. Marc Price played Irwin
"Skippy" Handleman, the nerdy next-door neighbor who adored
the Keatons, and Mallory in particular.
http://www.valdefierro.com/ties2.jpg
http://www.tvtome.com/FamilyTies/
http://www.familyties-tv.com/bios.htm
http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/pilots/familytiespilot.htm
1985
- The poor of America’s Heartland ... the financially troubled farmers
of Middle America ... got help from their friends in the music biz.
Singing stars Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Cougar Mellencamp held
a benefit concert to raise funds. The stars came out and so did the
money. The "Farm Aid" concert raised ten million dollars.
1983
- Forty-one cities reported record cold temperatures during the morning.
Houston, TX, hit 50 degrees, and Williston ND plunged to 19 degrees.
1988---Top
Hits
Sweet Child o’ Mine
- Guns N’ Roses
Simply Irresistible
- Robert Palmer
Don’t Worry Be Happy
- Bobby McFerrin
Joe Knows How to
Live - Eddy Raven
1989
- Called by some critics "Body Watch", the California-beach-based
lifeguard show “Baywatch” debuted on NBC. It first appeared on April
23 as a two
hour movie. Although the series had a healthy viewership,
the network canceled the show after one season. Baywatch star, David
Hasselhoff, took an unusual step, and investing a great deal of his
own money, revived the show and offered it for syndication. He had researched
the audience, and believed there was a loyal enough following to make
his investment pay off. Hasselhoff proved to be right, and within a
few years, Baywatch became the most-watched television show in the world,
with huge audiences in England and China. It was estimated to have a
collective viewership of 1 billion.
http://www.iol.ie/~wayneh/baywatch/history/index.htm
1989
- Hurricane Hugo quickly lost strength over South Carolina, but still
was a tropical storm as it crossed into North Carolina, just west of
Charlotte, at about 7 AM. Winds around Charlotte reached 69 mph, with
gusts to 99 mph. Eighty percent of the power was knocked out to Charlotte
and Mecklenburg County. Property damage in North Carolina was 210 million
dollars, and damage to crops was 97 million dollars. The strongest storm
surge occurred along the southern coast shortly after midnight, reaching
nine feet above sea level at ocean Isle and Sunset Beach. Hugo killed
one person and injured fifteen others in North Carolina. Strong northwesterly
winds ushered unseasonably cold air into the north central U.S., in
time for the official start of autumn, at 8:20 PM (CDT). Squalls produced
light snow in northern Wisconsin. Winds in Wisconsin gusted to 52 mph
at Rhinelander.
1992-
Bruce Springsteen breaks the rules and plays an electric set for MTV's
"Unplugged" show. The episode is renamed, "MTV Plugged."
1993-
The Rockies complete their inaugural season with a major league home
attendance record of 4,483,350 fans.
1994-“Friends”
premiered. This NBC comedy brought
together six single friends and the issues in their personal lives,
ranging from their jobs to their love lives. Cast included Courteney Cox Arquette, Lisa
Kudrok Jnneifer Aniston, Mathew Perry, David Schwimmer and Matt Le Blanc.
http://www.nbc.com/Friends/index.html
http://www2.warnerbros.com/friendstv/index.html
1997
- The Atlanta Braves won an unprecedented sixth straight division title.
The record eclipsed the old mark of five straight set by the New York
Yankees (1949-1953) and the Oakland A’s (1971-1975). The Braves failed
to reach the World Series, however, for the first time since 1993.
1998
-The Blue Jays' Jose Canseco hits his 45th and 46th home runs setting
a new career high.
1998-
With AL-leading HR #s 54 and 55, Mariner Ken Griffey Jr. joins Babe
Ruth and Lou Gehrig as the only players to drive in 140 or more runs
in three consecutive seasons.
2002
-In last game ever played at Cinergy Field, the Phillies complete a
three-game sweep defeating the Reds ,4-3, in front of many of the team's
former superstars except for the banished Pete Rose. The all-time hit
leader, however, is not forgotten as Tom Browning, paints Rose's uniform
number 14 on the pitcher's mound after the game with red spray paint
and, as home plate is dug up and to be delivered next door to Great
American Ball Park, the crowd begins to chant, "Pete, Pete".
Baseball Poem
Reluctance
by: Robert Frost
Out
through the fields and the woods
And
over the walls I have wended;
I
have climbed the hills of view
And
looked at the world, and descended;
I
have come by the highway home,
And
lo, it is ended.
The
leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save
those that the oak is keeping
To
ravel them one by one
And
let them go scraping and creeping
Out
over the crusted snow,
When
others are sleeping.
And
the dead leaves lie huddled and still,
No
longer blown hither and thither;
The
last lone aster is gone;
The
flowers of the witch-hazel wither;
The
heart is still aching to seek,
But
the feet question 'Whither?'
Ah,
when to the heart of man
Was
it ever less than a treason
To
go with the drift of things,
To
yield with a grace to reason,
And
bow and accept the end
Of
a love or a season?
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