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Julieconstitutional right to amend it, or their revolutionary right to overthrow it." I wasn't alive when THAT was written, either, but I sure am glad it was!
I was 13 when Ruth died ('48--I think); there's actually a regular, or semi-regular, contributor who must have been 15 or 16 at least in 1948, but none of you have noticed yet. Neither of us, of course, was alive in '29. We remember Jackie Robinson better than Babe Ruth...
I think those of us who love 19th century cards etc. love, not the roots themselves, but the first blossoms, of baseball. The rough-and-ready, and at the same time formal, early heros, with stickpins in their ties for portraits. The way the rules changed. Keefe asking "Where'l you have it?" for the last time in 1887. Catchers who didn't squat, umpires who stood so far away from the action they could hardly see what was going on. A single baseball for a whole game! A handful of black men around whom a particular, sports-oriented Jim Crow grew up, even though their ancestors came from a part of the world likely to produce the greatest of athletes. The commemoration of action at a time when the camera couldn't capture action--with balls on strings and lying still on the ground. AND SO ON!
E5--Nettles' licence plate.