http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/dc-sports-bog/wp/2015/03/26/nationals-unveil-new-train-themed-scoreboard-on-club-level/
I like it!
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
Nice ... Maybe they will put it in Atlanta as well.
"When the train arrived at Grand Central in midmorning, the writers bought their papers and yes, their articles had been published. Tossed to a telegrapher from a train that never stopped. You can’t do that on a jet."
Johnny
Deggesty "When the train arrived at Grand Central in midmorning, the writers bought their papers and yes, their articles had been published. Tossed to a telegrapher from a train that never stopped. You can’t do that on a jet."
True. Today they could type it on a laptop, tablet or smartphone, upload to their blogsite and it would be, "Published," before they got the finger off the ENTER button.
Even on a jet.
Chuck
wanswheel Yogi Berra rode some trains. NY Times article about the good old days… http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/sports/10anderson.html?_r=0
dakotafred wanswheel Yogi Berra rode some trains. NY Times article about the good old days… http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/sports/10anderson.html?_r=0 A few last leaves like Yogi have a lot to remember for all of us. Those train rides from the eastern U.S. to the then-outpost of MLB, in St. Louis, probably took more out of the players than modern plane rides to the West Coast. For one thing, there was time for a lot of drinking. The Cleveland Indians were a team that was well-known for lifting a few -- a reason even advanced for their failure to catch the Yankees so often in the first half of the 1950s. In the 1990s, former Indians 3rd-sacker Al Rosen -- then GM of the Giants -- made gentle fun of all the modern emphasis on weight-lifting. Indians teammate Bob Lemon, a Hall of Famer, "never lifted anything heavier than a cocktail glass," Rosen said.
Conditioning was 12 oz curls!
And the schedule back then had may fewer night games and the frequency of a day game after a night game was also much lower.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
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