“Take me out to the ballgame; take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks. I don’t care if I never get back.” So goes the once-popular song. My thoughts stray to some interesting baseball facts this morning. For example, on this day, October 6, 1926, Babe Ruth hit three home runs in a World Series game.
On this day in 1945, a tavern owner by the name of Billy Goat Sianis was escorted out of a World Series game. His billy goat was escorted out too. Sianis had bought a seat for his pet. Sianis didn’t take it too well. He cast a goat curse on the Cubs.
It was only last month, on September 22, that baseball’s great Yankee catcher Yogi Berra died. Yogi was ninety years old but I can remember as a child hearing about his accomplishments and, of course, his Yogi-isms. He was a World War II veteran, a patriot, and an American icon. I’ll miss just knowing he’s not around any more.
His Yogi-isms, however, are still with us. Some of my favorites:
“You can observe a lot by watching.”
“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up some place else.”
“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice, there is.”
“The future ain’t what it used to be.”
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
“You should always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise, they won’t come to yours.”
Good-bye, Yogi. I’ll miss you.
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