Saturday found Link, Dale, and Thad—as well as five other boys and two girls—sitting in the stands at Buzzard stadium, waiting for their first day of batboy training to start. Roy Dickenson had just been re-introduced as their trainer by Mr. Granville. Roy Dickenson was a former batboy and had been training the squad for some twenty-five years.
Schedules for training and Buzzards’ games were handed out. Thad was relieved. Training was on Saturdays, and the season didn’t start with home games until Memorial Day weekend. That meant he wouldn’t miss any school or his school team’s ballgames. The full schedule for semi-pro teams would begin in June when school would be out—Mr. Stevens had hesitated signing his permission until he examined every paper and was sure about the June date.
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