June  21,  2020

Thought  for  Today 

“Baseball’s unique possession is the fan’s memory of the times his daddy took him to see the great players of his youth. The excitement of those hours, the step they represented in his growth and the part those afternoons—even one afternoon—played in his relationship with his father are bound up in his feeling toward the game. When he takes his own son to the game, as his father once took him, there is a spanning of the generations that is warm and rich and—if I may use the word—lovely.” 

Bill Veeck in 

The Hustler’s Handbook 

(Putnam) in Reader’s Digest,

 August 1993, p. 145.

For me it was 1947 - 1950 and

Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges,

Duke Snyder, Don Newcombe etc.

with my dad.
I don't know who the guy is
in this video.