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Old 03-16-2024, 09:08 AM
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You made my day! My husband’s too. We had a good laugh remembering how invisible men worked in our backyard baseball games. And we both grew up in New England so your hypothesis about the origin of the phrase may be right. How did it come up on the golf course though??
We were talking about the things we did as kids and how often we played sports in neighborhood games. Baseball games, with only 4 players on a each team & one of those players, was someone's 7 year old little brother and we made him the full-time catcher.

I almost doubled over in laughter when I heard those words. I hadn't heard them, in 40 years. I thought it would be a spectacular name for a book and even put some effort into seeing what I could do to trademark the name. It was just one of those phrases, that evokes such wonderful memories ... & could only have been made up by a 10 year old boy.