The View From the Cheap Seats: ‘We Played Ball Together …’
By Eddie Mayrose
It’s a conversation we’ve all had. Upon being introduced to a stranger, the quest begins to find a friend or acquaintance common to both parties.
“Do you know…” becomes the question of the evening, until a name is finally revealed and the dialogue can progress, as if we’ve now earned a deeper understanding of each other.
While most responses — “We went to school together,” “We worked together,” “We lived on the same block” — do little to convey the nature of any friendship, one does serve to tell you that two people are extremely close and that there exists a bond unbroken by time or distance: “We played ball together.”