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I spend the morning with fellow LI Photo Clubbers Jesse, Ken and Ellery at Clark Gardens. I never knew this place existed and its so close by. Beautiful little gardens.

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Times Square, Rockafeller Center, Central Park, & Eastern Long Island

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So around noon time today I heard like four fire trucks the I could smell smoke. I ran out of the house down the block to see this. I ran back to grab my camera and starting shooting away. Everybody was safe, but major damage to the house.

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“Life is not a spectator sport. … If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion, you’re wasting your life.” — Jackie Robinson

Interesting Quotes from some players.

I can remember being a kid back in Mobile [Ala.] sitting on the back porch when an airplane flew over. I told my father when I grew up I was going to be a pilot. You know what he said? He said, “Ain’t no colored pilots.” So I told him I’d be a ballplayer. And he said, “Ain’t no colored ballplayers.” There were a lot of things blacks couldn’t be back then. There weren’t any colored pilots. There weren’t any colored ballplayers in the major leagues. So it was hard to have those dreams. Then Jackie came with the Brooklyn Dodgers to Mobile for an exhibition game in 1948. I went to hear him talk to a crowd in front of a drugstore. I skipped school to meet Jackie Robinson. If it were on videotape, you’d probably see me standing there with my mouth wide open. I don’t remember what he said. It didn’t matter what he said. He was standing there. My father took me to see Jackie play in that exhibition game. After that day, he never told me ever again that I couldn’t be a ballplayer. I was allowed to dream after that. –HENRY AARON

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