Did anybody note that we just had something called a World Series?

Did anybody note that we just had something called a World Series?

The DPP showed the importance it gave the event when they put the story of the third game on page 17C of Sunday’s city edition.

I guess that maybe I am nostalgic for the way they used to do it, play games during the daytime at whatever would be noon or one o’clock at the home team’s ball park, taking days off for travel only when geography seemed to require it, being aired on network radio and shown on major network television, heard by people who could, with or without permission, sneak a radio onto their work or school premises and seen by people who could go home for lunch and sneak a peek or two of smuggle a television into a break room.

Those World Series were noticed by people from all across the country and even people who were not baseball fans seemed to have an interest, even if the local team was not involved or there was no local team. Wherever you went, you could ask, “What’s the score?” and the person you were asking would understand what you were asking about. It might turn out that he/she did not have any more current information than you did, but you both were thinking of the same topic. Other differences [political, religious, class] were put aside for a few days and replaced by temporary new divisions [Giants-Indians, Cardinals-Yankees, Dodgers-Yankees, Mets-Orioles, etc.] took their places in areas where there were no teams and in areas where the locals were playing there was a new us-vs.-them which replaced the Cold War in people’s minds for a few days.

Those days are not coming back, but maybe each October we should at least reflect on then.