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Amazing Songwriter does it again... I love this one:

Letters In The Dirt

Me & you, we never booed Richie Allen
I never understood why people did
He hit a homer every time he stepped up to the plate
That's what I remember as a kid

Richie in the field out there by first base
The target of some mighty foul words
With his shoes hed scrawl between the pitches
B-O-O in great big letters in the dirt

Philly fans, theyve been known to get nasty
When Joe must go, theyll run him out of town
I saw Santa get hit by a snowball
And then get hit again when he was down

Me & you, we never booed Richie Allen
Even if he did sometimes strike out
I was too young to read the papers
To know what all that booing was about

That big collapse of 64 was ugly
They blew a lead of 6 and one-half games with 12 to play
Some might say their fans were justifiably angry
World Series tickets printed up in vain

Philly fans, theyve been known to get nasty
When Joe must go, theyll run him out of town
I saw Santa get hit by a snowball
And then get hit again when he was down

Going back to old Connie Mack Stadium
You teaching me the rules of the game
We root-root-rooted for the home team
Those other people shoulda been ashamed

This was before the days of the million dollar contracts
Before the days of the artificial grass
He stood a bit outside the lines which made him fair game for those times
Richie Allen never kissed a white mans ass

Me & you, we never booed Richie Allen
No, wed pound our mitts & wed yell, We want a hit
How could they call a guy a bum after hed just hit a home run?
That didnt make any sense to a kid

Now Ive since found out all these years later
Now I know a lot more than I did
And if back then you knew, Daddy, why all those other people booed...
Thanks for letting me have my heroes as a kid