Chuck Peterson, a childhood best friend, recently passed away. It made me do some reflecting on that time in my life. It was 1962 and my family moved at the end of the school year from Sheridan, a suburb south of Denver, to the Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch a mile south of Elbert, Colorado. On the 4^th of July, a local man came to tell my parents that Elbert hosted a little league tournament every 4^th of July and if they had any boys of that age they could join in. I was in that age bracket and ...