The Brooklyn Dodgers won the 1955 seventh game of the World Series on October 4th.
Back then it was called the Fall Classic.
Now it runs into November and makes 12 year old kids go to bed rather than stay up to midnight on a school night.
The 1950’s New York Yankees played Sunday doubleheaders that started at 2:00PM and were over by 7:00PM. It takes that long to play a single Yankees/Rd Sox regular season game.
Exhibition teams playing under the name of “House of David” wore beards and travelled from town to town as side shows. Now every one of these crotch-scratching, seed-spitting major leaguers try to outdo each other as jihadi look-alikes.
And they wonder why attendance keeps going down and baseball is no longer the National Pastime.
Good post Bill. Yep, the ‘Fall Classic’ really was: THE FALL CLASSIC! then wasn’t it? The best week of the year! Day games only and if you were very, very, VERY lucky, a small black and white somehow made it into your classroom for a game or to. A long time ago but it seems like it all happened only yesterday. “Jihadi look-alikes?” You nailed that one also. I don’t get the muzzie looking huge bushy beard thing at all. Short and trimmed well do look okay tho imho. Oh well, Baseball changes just like everything else.