Baseball be berry berry good to
me, but ... (Chico
Escuela)
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Travel is via luxury motor coach, and in each
city, you'll stay at a three- or four-star Marriott Hotel. You'll also
have a chance to visit baseball-oriented attractions like the Hall of
Fame in Cooperstown. Buy two vouchers and take Dad for the Father's Day
gift of a lifetime. [Full]
That's a scary thought.Travel about the country on a luxury motor coach  If
my kids were still in grade school, I might have it in me.
But then they
couldn't be shelling out $3500, could they? As it is,even
flying
anywhere is more hassle than I'm willing to endure. And hey, does
Detroit have a Marriott? With windows? Your mileage may
differ.
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Would have loved to have made this trip with my late son. We had a great friends and family get-together Saturday in his memory. There were four boys at the event whose fathers had named them after Ben. Ten years, amazing. He and I had always planned to do a Fenway, Yankee Stadium and Wrigley tour. We were gonna, famous last words. Don't wait if you don't have to.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened E.S?
ReplyDeleteTo clarify, Ben wasn't ten when he passed away, it was ten years ago and he was 28. Cancer found too late. Pitched four years in college and we never suspected a thing. I told the story a few years ago right here how he dreaded radiation for a brain tumor because he was afraid he would become a liberal. Just a great young man who is missed every day. But by faith I know I will see him again.
ReplyDeleteThis is a must see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Oz267A6jhbw
ReplyDeletePat Condell at his best. No 'peace' in the end.
"Baseball be berry berry good to me."
ReplyDeleteThat line, which was used by Saturday Night Live for years, had a real origin. Sandy Amoros, left fielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1950s, was born in Cuba and had very poor English. And yes, he said that line several times, about reaching the limit of his English.
He left baseball and went back to Cuba to live. He had a run in with Castro after his 1960 retirement. Castro offered him position as manager of the Cuban national team. Amoros refused, and his $30,000 ranch was confiscated, and he was penniless. He finally left Cuba in 1967.
Later in life he wanted to rectify his retirement problem: under the MLB-Players Association rules, he was a few games short of the minimum for retirement. The Chicago White Sox put him on the roster for a few games, which allowed him to receive the minimum pension.
Amoros died in Florida in 1992. He was a good player, a good man, and we at least have the 1955 World Series, and an odd verbal expression to remember him by.
There's a four-star Marriott? Maybe they mean scar? I have three scars on my lower calf that I attribute to bedbugs in my Orange Park Marriott hotel room Saturday night.
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