LizzieMaine
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I was watching a videotape of a baseball broadcast from the summer of 1969 last night, and the announcer was, as announcers did in those days, reading birthday announcements sent in by fans. He noted that this particular fan, from some small town in Rhode Island or somewhere, was celebrating his hundredth birthday as he watched the game that afternoon. That kind of startled me for a moment -- a man born four years after the Civil War, during the presidency of U. S. Grant, was sitting in his living room watching the Red Sox get their backsides handed to them by Oakland. And there's a good chance, that I, myself, as a six year old, was sitting in my own living room at that same moment watching that same broadcast.