Magic Ball

As he walked toward the edge of the woods, he trippedover a tractor tire embedded in the dirt. He looked downand saw a baseball half covered by the tire. He wiggledit out of the dirt. The ball was old and worn with itsseams torn, but Billy felt a strange attraction to it, like ithad a personality. Like it had a story to it. He couldn’texplain the feeling, but he decided this old ball was goinghome...