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To: Jim Noble

The GIANTS too; though the Yankees look set for a TERRIFIC year, this year! :-)


140 posted on 01/08/2018 3:35:40 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

My Dad took me to my first Giants game in 1954, against the Cubs (in gray flannel), Whitey Lockman hit two home runs.

He got his first big job in 1957, and we had a date in September to go see the Pirates game, so I got to stay home from school. He was supposed to pick me up at 11:30, but the clock went past there, and past noon, and past 12:30. He got home at two and I have never seen him so upset, before or since.

“Don’t worry, Dad,” I said, “we can go next year”.

That’s when he told me there was no next year. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was sixty years ago.


146 posted on 01/08/2018 3:41:43 PM PST by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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