Thank you for writing about him. I'm glad to know a little of him.
On a very minor note, your grandfather's experience with the old baseball just cleared up a mystery for me:
It was one of the wartime kind, with a rubber center. The rubber had decayed.
Once I heard an urban legend that if you cut open a golf ball, it contained goop that would act like powerful acid and dissolve everything around it, like stone, wood, dirt, the skin on your fingers, your shoes... I bet that legend arose because of decaying old rubber-centered balls like the one your grandfather opened.
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Thank you for writing about him. I'm glad to know a little of him.
On a very minor note, your grandfather's experience with the old baseball just cleared up a mystery for me:
It was one of the wartime kind, with a rubber center. The rubber had decayed.
Once I heard an urban legend that if you cut open a golf ball, it contained goop that would act like powerful acid and dissolve everything around it, like stone, wood, dirt, the skin on your fingers, your shoes... I bet that legend arose because of decaying old rubber-centered balls like the one your grandfather opened.