Danny Schmidt

Memorial Day

    We went through school together one seat apart. Ralphene Saracino sat between us. It was boy, girl, boy, girl for the 10 years we went from Kindergarten to 9th grade at Gabriel Richard on the northeast side of Detroit. He sprouted up quickly and so I put him on first base. But he only caught about 80 percent of the balls we threw to him so we replac…