brick bats and clubs. dick peterson always in the van yelling, singing, beeyahinging, whirling around with his right and missed. he made himself the pitcher on the baseball team because he was the captain. he was the captain because everybody was afraid to challenge his self-election. except floyd. but floyd was too lazy to pitch and he didn't care who was captain. he didn't fully comprehend what that meant. on one occasion when a boy shut out without a hit, dick took him out of the pitcher's box an went in himself. he was hit hard, and the other team scored. it didn't make much difference because the margin of sullivant's victory was so great. the team didn't lose a game for five years to another grammar school. when dick peterson was in the sixth grade. he got into a saloon brawl and was killed. when i go back to columbus i