Baseball

because that was something very new and different - in color in detail that you couldn't see on TV.

I do not remember who hit a home run that day, if any, or who won. A lot of kids played so .. I think it was first time I saw Willie Stargell ...

For me, it's always been that way. I remember their complexion or deep blue eyes or physical features or something they said - far better than most of what I saw in the competition.

Many years ago, as a young boy, I wandered into a NHL locker room after a game. There wasn't much security back then and they probably figured I was a relative of a player. I just took it all in. One kind of shock was a Hall of Famer named Red Kelly. He was supposedly named after the color of his hair. On black and white tv, you'd have no idea. But in person, it wasn't bright orange - it was a dull browny orange. Stupid little thing to notice and get hung up on but I still remember it like yesterday.

Decades later, I'm playing golf alone late in the evening - trying to whip around. I catch up to a pair who invite me to join them - which I accepted. The older man said "Hello, my name is Kelly .." I respond "Oh yes, Mr Kelly. We met some time ago." We play the hole and on the green he's still looking, trying to figure out where he'd met me. "... it was about 40 years ago in the locker room ..." He laughed and we had a good time after that. He was a lefty who could really putt - that part of his performance I recall.