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kairos12

(13,238 posts)
Sat Jun 20, 2020, 01:52 PM Jun 2020

One of my favorite Father's Day Baseball Memories

Some years ago I was a regular season game on the TEEVEE. Nothing significant about it. As the play happened I wasn't aware my teenage daughter had walked into the room. After the play happened I hear an exasperated voice say:

"I can't believe that guy failed to move the runner over." And she walked out.

My work on earth was done.

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One of my favorite Father's Day Baseball Memories (Original Post) kairos12 Jun 2020 OP
I LOVE IT!!! Ohiogal Jun 2020 #1
That is just wonderful! kairos12 Jun 2020 #6
You too, kairos12. Ohiogal Jun 2020 #7
One of my favorite family pictures is murielm99 Jun 2020 #2
That picture is love captured in time. kairos12 Jun 2020 #3
Nice! Sometimes the smaller moments like this are actually the bigger ones. yonder Jun 2020 #4
Favorite Father's Day memories were my grandfather would come to visit. empedocles Jun 2020 #5

Ohiogal

(34,481 posts)
1. I LOVE IT!!!
Sat Jun 20, 2020, 02:01 PM
Jun 2020


When my husband and I were first dating, he knew I liked baseball. But one day he came over and I had a game on the TV. My team had a runner in scoring position with two outs. The next batter that came up swung at the first pitch and hit a lazy fly ball which was an easy catch for the center fielder. I grumbled, “Bah! He got under it.” Mr. O looked at me stunned, and said, “Where’d you learn that?” Same source as your daughter.

murielm99

(31,411 posts)
2. One of my favorite family pictures is
Sat Jun 20, 2020, 02:02 PM
Jun 2020

the one where my son and my husband were at a White Sox/Cubs game. My husband is a Sox fan. My kids are all Cubs fans.

The picture is wonderful. My son was a season ticket holder with the Cubs.

Your daughter sounds like a winner.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
5. Favorite Father's Day memories were my grandfather would come to visit.
Sat Jun 20, 2020, 02:18 PM
Jun 2020

I was a little kid, but watched bb for hours. There were often 3 games to choose from; Yankees, Giants, and Dodgers on Sunday afternoons. The three of us watched mostly the Yankees [father and gf had seen the Babe play in person]. [We would go see 1 special game a year. I always chose Yanks v. Ted Williams].

One game, [very doubtful if it was Father's Day], was a game in which the Giant's Don Mueller, [pronounced Mule er, if I remember right], hit an inside-the-park home run, in the Polo Grounds. There were probably a number of such homers, with a 480' center field. The clubhouse was on top of that 480 wall, with outdoor steps leading to it.

Anyway, what made the Mueller hr memorable was that, Mueller was a slow, choke up the bat, contact hitter. The hr was a pop fly that each of 3 players, 2nd, rf, cf, called to catch it. All 3 swerved off short of a collision, and overran the ball. Somehow slow Mueller beat the throw to the plate. Never saw anything like it.

Polo Grounds were my all time favorite baseball field. [Feels good to tell that one. Thanks for you to enable me to grab the opportunity].

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