Most of my readers were neither the captain of the football team nor queen of the prom. Yet millions of American teenagers today would like to have the opportunity of being either — or, in the case of athletically gifted girls, both. Competition for the top spots in life begins early. The late, great humorist Jean Shepherd, who wrote the screenplay for “A Christmas Story” (1984), which was a composite of several of his short stories, had a theory that the reality of social hierarchy intrudes at a young age for boys: sandlot baseball. The order of who gets picked … Continue reading ‘There’s More Where That Came From’