{"id":614,"date":"2016-07-22T17:43:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T17:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=614"},"modified":"2016-07-22T17:43:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T17:43:04","slug":"my-first-major-league-baseball-game-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"My First Major League Baseball Game Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"yankeestadium1961\"<\/a>My dad died last year, perhaps one of the reasons I started digging around in these memories, so he wasn’t around to ask about my first baseball game. Was it the game I remember in 1961? Were there earlier games?\u00a0What game did we go see in 1961. But then\u00a0it occurred to me that my old friend John was there, too, and maybe I could find him.<\/p>\n

We hadn’t been in contact since high school, at least, and we didn’t run together then. We had last been chums when I was in third grade, when my family moved up the road and I was transferred to a different elementary school. But there he was, on Facebook and LinkedIn. To send a message via LinkedIn I had to be a paying member, I’m not, so I sent a friend request on Facebook, which a short while later was accepted.<\/p>\n

I messaged him and we had a brief conversation (my messages are in green):<\/p>\n

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Hi John. I hope you’re well these days. Are you living in New York? I’m out in Brooklyn.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I was thinking about you because I’ve been writing about the first major league baseball game I went to see, and I think it was with you and my dad at Yankee Stadium. I was wondering if you had any memory of that? And any details. Most of the details I recalled were in some way wrong.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Of course, it was a while ago.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I think so. I live in the Poconos. My mind is trying to remember.<\/div>\n
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It’s a pleasant exercise, remembering, but a little chilling to discover none of the details (weather, opponent, who hit homers, time of day) could have lined up the way I remember.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I hear you. My memory is shot.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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What was the question again?<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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My dad died last year and I started to put together stories about the way our lives intertwined because of baseball, that’s how I got onto this. Thanks for letting me know if anything comes to mind.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The other one was the guy who lived next door to me who was a salesman for Topps. He brought us rolls of uncut baseball cards a few times.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I’m sorry about your dad. I do recall those uncut cards. That was fun<\/div>\n
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Thanks. I remember cutting them with our little child-safe scissors, so each\u00a0one had a unique shape.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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That’s right. Stay in touch!!<\/div>\n
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Will do!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Not too promising, I’m afraid. I sent John a link to the first part of this story<\/a> yesterday and will update here if he has any reaction.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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My dad died last year, perhaps one of the reasons I started digging around in these memories, so he wasn’t around to ask about my first baseball game. Was it the game I remember in 1961? Were there earlier games?\u00a0What game did we go see in 1961. But then\u00a0it occurred to me that my old … Continue reading My First Major League Baseball Game Part 2<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","category-memoir"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}