You have seen some great pitching in your day then. You lived to see Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale pitch. Thats called a blessing :)
Whittier, Calif., where I grew up, caught baseball fever when the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles. Things really got exciting in 1959, when the Dodgers went to the World Series, and Duke Snider, Larry Sherry and Wally Moon became household words.
During the 1963 World Series, our physical education classes were devoted to watching the games. To keep the peace, two televisions set up on opposite sides of the gym—one for Dodger fans, the other for Yankee fans, of which there were a few.
My most memorable World Series took place in 1965, when I lived in a village near Darmstadt, Germany. Listening to the games broadcast lte at night over the Armed Forces Radio Network station in Frankfurt, I cheered on Koufax, Drysdale, and Osteen as they led the Dodgers to the World Championship over Minnesota in seven games.