just re-read this thread, great memories thanks guys, baseball, the whole atmosphere is so nostalgic. Sideline, I just read a great book I recommend to the baseball lover, written by the Sports writer Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie), (the five people you meet in Heaven), this book For one more day is striking the fire of all of us growing up in the 50,60, 70 with baseball a part of family. Suggest a 12 pack of beer, a few hours of reading and your reminisce the good old days and the twists and turns of family life.

:cheers: irish....you are soooo correct my frienddancing

Rolling Rock Beer commercial....

Being "Tossed" or "Ejected" from a game is one of the duties of the manager....sometimes it serves to spark yer team on to victory....other times it settles them in to a 10 game losing streak....

Sometimes you get a souvenir when entering the ballpark to commemorate a special event.....sometimes this happens to the souvenirs...

A fan, a paying spectator....Steve Bartman....will go down in history...as the man most responsible for causing the Cubs to miss out on a chance at the World Series...he battled a player for a foul ball and the rest is Cub history....here he is being ejected from Wrigley Field...

The way security was dealing with Bartman reminded me of when they led Lee Harvey Oswald through the underground garage in Dallas.

It's now "All-Star Break"....the official half-way point in the baseball season with the gala All-Star festivities scheduled for the next two days in San Francisco.

The All-Star Game, with the best players from the American and National League playing an exhibition game, is tomorrow evening.

The "National Anthem" will be sung before the start of the game, as it is for every ball game, by a famous celebrity whose name escapes me right now.

There have been many memorable National Anthems sung over the years...some good some bad....this one by Roseanne is probably the most infamous....

Whitney Huston gets it right for Super Bowl XXV.....

Great thread. I grew up a Kansas City Royals fan. Spent 20 years watching one of the greatest hitters the game has ever known, George Brett.



Then in the late 70's my family got cable TV, and thanks to the WGN TV station I got hooked on a lousy team that played in Chicago - the Cubs. In the mid 80's I worked for a hotel and they had an affiliation with the Drake Hotel in Chicago. Me and a couple buddies would fly up for 2-3 days, stay for free at the Drake, and take the train up to Wrigley Field. Spent many sunny afternoons sitting in the bleachers, singing along with Harry at the 7th inning stretch, and watching Ron Cey, Gary Matthews, Leon Durham, Jody Davis, and Rick Sutcliffe. They also had this young, slick-fielding secondbaseman named Ryne Sandberg, who became one of my favorite players.



Then, in 1985, something crazy happened - the Royals won the World Series. Oh, the feeling when your hometown team wins it all. :lol1:



Then came the strike of '94. They actually cancelled the last half of the season, along with the play-offs AND the World Series. All because of greedy players and owners. :thumbdown:

Now I'll catch a few games here and there (I was banging my head against a wall when Steve Bartman wrestled that foul fly away from Moisus Alou), but because of the greed and corruption, the game has never been the same for me.

I still love "the game" of baseball, just not the current condition of MLB.