A Boy’s Major League Baseball Memories
Back in the late 1950’s, when I was about ten years old, my family owned a black and white TV set. Living in the Chicago area and loving baseball, I would watch the Chicago Cubs and White Sox on WGN TV. The outfield grass always looked gray, but I didn’t care because I was watching baseball!
I was a newspaper boy for the Chicago Tribune at the time, and the Trib decided to take about 100 newspaper carriers to a White Sox ball game against Ted Williams and the Boston Red Sox. They bused us into the city and there was Comiskey Park. As we went into the center field area, where our seats were, I remember seeing that HUGE field with all the green grass. All I could say was WOW! I had never seen so much green grass in one place!
I was so excited to be at a major league baseball game that it didn’t matter where I sat. Even sitting way out in the center field bleachers, I could still hear the crack of the bats- ah yes, and all that green grass!