Play Ball! Just like today, spring in 1948 and 1949 meant it was time to play baseball at Consolidated School. But that is where the similarity ends. In those years Consolidated School included grades 1 thru 8 and the average class size was less than 20 students. It took the boys from 6th, 7th and 8th grades to make enough players for two teams at recess. The school had very little or no athletic equipment so the boys brought their own. Some were fortunate enough to have gon