(More on a topic discussed on the radio in October, 2006 on XM Radio's "Left Jab")
Spring has come. The buds are about to burst. Birds migrate north. A new baseball season starts.
Nature does not change (OK, there is global warming). But "time-enduring" baseball today is quite different than baseball as I knew it growing up. Millionaire ball-players, billionaire owners, luxury boxes, steroids and more make you want to go back to what is simplistically and euphamistically described as "a more innocent time".
But come to think of it, in our new great global village of interactivity you can go back.
These days get my fix of baseball purity by starting at websites on about clubs that exist no more.
Recently The New York Times did a fine piece about the Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society. More can be found at the April edition of The Letter From The Road newsletter at our website www.hiddenamerica.com or at http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20E1EF638550C718DDDAA0894DE404482.
Some other interseting resources for teams, once important, now departed include:
Botson Braves: www.bostonbraves.com
Milwaukee Braves: www.wisconsinhistory.org/museum/exhibits/braves.asp
Brooklyn Dodgers: www.ebbets-field.com
St. Louis Browns: www.thestlbrowns.com/
New York Giants: www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?s=dc45564990a2af756694cf726cde829d&t=17306
Washington Senators: http://washingtonsenators.org/
Seattle Pilots: www.seattlepilots.com/
Kansas City Athletics: www.sportkc.org/visit_kc/history.htm
Montreal Expos : "Baseball Comes to Canada" - CBC Website http://archives.cbc.ca/300c.asp?IDCat=41&IDDos=611&IDLan=1&IDMenu=41
Also for the Expos and baseball in Montreal - www.encorebaseballmontreal.com
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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