Yes indeed. Jackie and I were engaged and were spending most weekends (including the weekend of Woodstock that was coming in August) at her parents' bungalow colony in the Catskills. We got a ride home and watched Uncle Walter on television along with everybody else.
It was also the summer the Braves went to the National League Championship. I was living in Georgia and listened to the Braves on the radio every night whe following Apollo 11on TV during the day. I kept a big scrapbook of those (to me) two defining events of that summer. I threw the scrapbook out sometime in the mid-seventies, thinking of it as kid's stuff. How I wish I still had it!
/It's a rapid journey from eager scrapbooking adolescence to the geezerette bus!
It was the Atlanta Braves. Luman Harris was the manager (wow--I remembered that!). The Braves were still in the National League West at the time and they lost to the New York Mets in the League Champion series. I think that was the year the Mets won the World Series, but I was so heartsick at the Braves losing, I didn't even listen to the games.
A bunch of us glues to the TV in a living room in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. There were tears. We couldn't believe what we were seeing. The whole future was open before us with unlimited possibilities.
Yes indeed, Deb. The Mets blew past the Cubs - whose long-suffering fans surely thought this was their year at last - on the way to 100 wins, bludgeoned the Braves three straight games, and then shocked the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles (who won 109 games that season and led their division by 19 games) four straight times after losing game one.
It was a magical season, and coming the same year the Joe Namath-led New York Jets beat the heavily favored Baltimore Colts (a bad year for Baltimore fans) it seems even more like a dream now than it did then.
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Yes indeed. Jackie and I were engaged and were spending most weekends (including the weekend of Woodstock that was coming in August) at her parents' bungalow colony in the Catskills. We got a ride home and watched Uncle Walter on television along with everybody else.
Jeff (from the geezer bus)
It was also the summer the Braves went to the National League Championship. I was living in Georgia and listened to the Braves on the radio every night whe following Apollo 11on TV during the day. I kept a big scrapbook of those (to me) two defining events of that summer. I threw the scrapbook out sometime in the mid-seventies, thinking of it as kid's stuff. How I wish I still had it!
/It's a rapid journey from eager scrapbooking adolescence to the geezerette bus!
And the bad news is that the journey speeds up instead of slowing down.
So do I. What a moment!
Deb, which Braves team was that, Boston, Milwaukee or Atlanta?
It was the Atlanta Braves. Luman Harris was the manager (wow--I remembered that!). The Braves were still in the National League West at the time and they lost to the New York Mets in the League Champion series. I think that was the year the Mets won the World Series, but I was so heartsick at the Braves losing, I didn't even listen to the games.
A bunch of us glues to the TV in a living room in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. There were tears. We couldn't believe what we were seeing. The whole future was open before us with unlimited possibilities.
Yes indeed, Deb. The Mets blew past the Cubs - whose long-suffering fans surely thought this was their year at last - on the way to 100 wins, bludgeoned the Braves three straight games, and then shocked the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles (who won 109 games that season and led their division by 19 games) four straight times after losing game one.
It was a magical season, and coming the same year the Joe Namath-led New York Jets beat the heavily favored Baltimore Colts (a bad year for Baltimore fans) it seems even more like a dream now than it did then.
Jeff
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