He missed Babe, but 112-year-old hits first game

MLB.com ^ | 9/16/2019 | Sarah Langs

[Buckeye McFrog]

There’s no better place to celebrate a birthday than at the ballpark. Even more so when it’s your first visit. That’s what CP Crawford, of Lansing, Ill., did on his birthday Thursday. It was his 112th birthday, and Crawford, a lifelong White Sox fan, had never been to a game.

Andrew Holmes, who is the executive director of Club 100, a nonprofit that focuses on people who are 100 years old or older, learned of Crawford’s fandom and the fact he’d never seen his team play, and decided to help make that happen.

Crawford took a limo from his nursing home in Lansing to the game, but the destination was kept a surprise. The White Sox mapped out the day for Crawford, from a custom jersey given to him by Harold Baines, to club-level seats and time on the field before the game. The number on the jersey? 112, of course.

[Buckeye McFrog]

112 years old? Krikey, he was actually following the team when the Black Sox scandal occurred!

[OttawaFreeper]

And he probably would have remembered the last time the White Sox won a World Series before their 2005 victory over Houston, which would have been in 1917 against the New York Giants.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

“$10 bucks for a hot dog! Why, in my days you can get them things for a quarter and still have room for peanuts!”

[Cicero]

[sharpee]

I remember getting a beer for 10 cents at a Cleveland Indians Texas Rangers game.

[Larry Lucido]

WILLIE SR: I remember when you used to be able to get a Hershey for a nickel. A nickel!

[GOP Congress]

He was 40 years old when Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947! Respect...

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

thanks for posting this.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Last year the Pittsburgh Pirates had an usher retire just shy of his 100th. birthday. He was working the stands at Forbes Field on the day Babe Ruth hit his last home run in 1935.