The Red Brick Ballpark

I have several times made reference to the circumstances that brought two young Kentucky families together on a small rocky farm in Southern Indiana. In 1947 the four Pecks and the four Fredericks moved into a large brick house that was built in 1869. The Fredericks (Mom’s brother, his wife and two boys—one a year older than me and the other a year younger) and the Pecks (Dad, Mom, a one-ye...