April 15 is Jackie Robinson Day in Major League Baseball. So, today, as all players on all teams wear the number forty-two on their jerseys, here is mine. This was my jersey when I played for the South Clayton Athletic Association Braves at eight years old. I was number forty-two.
This jersey, which Miriam sometimes wears, is in the Dana Heritage Project Catalog of Significant Objects.
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Though it is still spring, I have declared this the Summer of Baseball. As I have already written, I have attended several Florida Gators baseball games, and intend to attend still more. Last weekend, I went with my father to watch the hated New York Yankees play my hometown Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg.
Though Tropicana Field is a soulless place, and though the Rays lost, and though the hated Yankees’ haughty fans were ignoble in their victory, I still was glad to spend the afternoon with my father. But, in the future, I will plan to attend games in which the Rays play the Orioles or the Indians. For now, the Rays are tied with the Blue Jays for first place in the American League East. I look forward to the rest of the Summer of Baseball.
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