“When I was a small boy in Kansas,” Dwight Eisenhower recalled near the end of his life, “a friend of mine and I went fishing. And as we sat there in the warmth of the summer afternoon on a river bank, we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real, major-league baseball player-a genuine professional, like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he’d like to be President of the United States.” He added, somewhat wistfully, “neither of us got our wish.”
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Jill Goodkind and the TriBattery Pops
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On the morning April 6, more than 1,000 Lower Manhattan boys and girls who may someday have to settle for being President of the United States paraded from Pier 25 to the ball fields in Battery Park City, marking what is now a decades-old Lower Manhattan tradition and rite of passage: the annual Opening Day ceremony for Downtown Little League. Missing for the first time in many years was the late Tom Goodkind, whose Tri-Battery Pops provided musical accompaniment to a generation of aspiring Ty Cobbs and Lizzie Murphys. Mr. Goodkind’s widow, Jill, was on hand to accept an honorary captain’s jersey on his behalf.
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