Fifty years ago MLB was mostly played in the daytime. There were no Sales Taxes. Candy bars were 5 cents, and with a Dollar a child could buy a pack of cigarettes, a quart of milk, a newspaper, a candy bar, a comic book, and still have change.My mom used to send me to the store often enough.
Little League had real cotton (burlap like) uniforms just like the Majors. The letters DH meant doubleheader, and they had a few every season. I saw my first Red Sox game at Fenway Park and the ticket cost me $.0.75, for 2 games with open seating. A Buck at McDonald's could feed 3 or 4 kids.
Cartoons were Saturday morning and Church was on Sunday, and almost everybody went.
You could travel from any place in the city (metro area) for a Dime.
Everything went bad when the price of a candy bar went to 10 cents.
That;’s another thing I remember- my dad would send me to the store on the street corner with a quarter to get him a pack of smokes- Salem - at about 7 years of age.