listening to the ball game

on the back porch with a little round yellow am transistor radio listening to the game being played at sportsmans park, on my birthday. Stan Musial steps to the plate and hits a home run with two men on. the swelling cheer of the crowd registers as an elevation in static, and then the air born sound waves roll between the houses up and down Beaumont Boulevard and I leap off the porch and run to the front yard to catch them full force