The Over the Hill Gang…Swings Again!
By Frank Pace
When Thomas Wolfe wrote You Can’t Go Home Again in 1940, the classic novel proposed that nostalgia causes one to view the past in an overly positive light. Going home is never as good as one remembers. The Writers Guild strike in Los Angeles inadvertently gave me the opportunity to test Wolfe’s theory. l flew in from California to attend a loosely organized reunion of my childhood friends. We grew up playing baseball on the sandlots and…