SPRING TRAINING?

   WEDNESDDAY, JUNE26TH., 2019
             SPRING TRAINING?

  I posted some thoughts on this blog the
other day about the popularity of those
"Crane machines" here on the boardwalk
in Wildwood.
   I must now own up to the fact that the
Arcades were some of my favorite stops
when my Dad and Mon brought me to
the shore every year.
   In that regard I suppose the fascination
my grandkids have about these machines
that offer the chance of a great looking
(if actually cheap knock off) prize is
something of an inherited passion.
    My first born grandson has been
playing them for the better part of his
visits to the seashore.
    But Jason is now 21 and as I write
he and his girlfriend and his aunt and
uncle are preparing to leave us or
the evening to make the short drive
north of here to Atlantic City.
     He's not likely to find many Crane
machines in the casinos there but I
suppose with all those years of "Spring
Training" he'll have a much chance as
anybody for winning a prize.
     Hope he does and that all his, and
your, NEWS is good.