Dennis Bezanowitz, parts 492 - 495

492. Dennis set up a target on the chain link fence at the border of our playing field, and all summer long the sound of his baseball hitting the fence over and over would ring out from morning till night, as he practiced his pitching, in anticipation of getting into the big leagues.

493. But things did not go well for him. The year we went on to High school, he tried out for the school's baseball team, but the coach rejected him. Practicing more and with greater determination was not an option, because that was all he ever did anyway.

494. For several weeks Dennis was rather depressed, but then one night he broke into the coach's house and trashed all the furniture, and spray painted things on the walls while the coach was out having dinner. When the coach came home he found Dennis in the middle of an epileptic seizure.  The coach did not press charges, but Dennis had to spend a few weeks under observation in a hospital.

495. The combination of his rejection from the team, and the epilepsy resulted in Dennis giving up any desire to be a pitcher for the Yankees. He drifted through high school without any purpose except that he was constantly requested to do art work for various high school events, since he was the only one among us that could draw.