Are you sure you are not a literary scholar just posing as some average Joe??? Loved this piece. I especially enjoy the whole nostalgia of the game. Way back when, in 1994 I had partial season tickets to the Texas Rangers at the now not so new but then brand new stadium in Arlington. One of the first games I attended I brought my son, age 5 and my dad, well old. From the minute we arrived all he talked about was how beautiful the stadium was and how it felt like the Brooklyn Dodgers and the NY Yankee's stadiums that as he said took my mom when they were "keeping company" Inning after inning he would tell my son about this game or that game he saw back in the day. I think he really felt nostalgic when he gave my son $.50 for an ice cream. I didn't have the heart to tell prices have gone up since 1939. It truly was the thought that counted. It was a great way to spend the afternoon and he loved it. SO much so that every time thereafter I would visit him in NY a neighbor or friend of his would say wow I hear TX is beautiful and what a stadium you have! This was the same man who walked in to my home which I thought was pretty nice and his comment was "how the hell many BATTROOMS" do you have in this house..."Immediately followed up by his tales of 5 brothers 1 bathroom etc. But what a stadium. it also reminded me of his line when one of my children were at bat either in softball or baseball you could hear Poppa Al say "that's the way you work it" and "okay making him trow it to you!" Nostalgia and the sport! Thanks for making me reminisce.
Are you sure you are not a literary scholar just posing as some average Joe??? Loved this piece. I especially enjoy the whole nostalgia of the game. Way back when, in 1994 I had partial season tickets to the Texas Rangers at the now not so new but then brand new stadium in Arlington. One of the first games I attended I brought my son, age 5 and my dad, well old. From the minute we arrived all he talked about was how beautiful the stadium was and how it felt like the Brooklyn Dodgers and the NY Yankee's stadiums that as he said took my mom when they were "keeping company" Inning after inning he would tell my son about this game or that game he saw back in the day. I think he really felt nostalgic when he gave my son $.50 for an ice cream. I didn't have the heart to tell prices have gone up since 1939. It truly was the thought that counted. It was a great way to spend the afternoon and he loved it. SO much so that every time thereafter I would visit him in NY a neighbor or friend of his would say wow I hear TX is beautiful and what a stadium you have! This was the same man who walked in to my home which I thought was pretty nice and his comment was "how the hell many BATTROOMS" do you have in this house..."Immediately followed up by his tales of 5 brothers 1 bathroom etc. But what a stadium. it also reminded me of his line when one of my children were at bat either in softball or baseball you could hear Poppa Al say "that's the way you work it" and "okay making him trow it to you!" Nostalgia and the sport! Thanks for making me reminisce.
Great article. Baseball is glorious.
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