Re: MT VOID, 03/07/25 -- Vol. 43, No. 36, Whole Number 2370

On 3/9/25 9:27 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

"Here's an example: we always went to day games.  One game lasted
14 innings.  Many years after that game (in 1969), I looked up the
box score on BaseballReference.com.  It lasted 5 hours and 1
minute, at a time the average 9-game lasted about 2:30.  We stayed
the entire time because he knew I wanted to.  I think I did
understand it then.  I certainly did understand it 'later on' and
now."

That reminds me of a Red Sox game in the sixties that ran into many extra innings. In those days, commercials were on their own tapes, or something like that, and the TV crew had packed away all but two of the commercials, thinking the game would be over soon. They showed those two commercials over and over. I'll never forget the carnivorous "Walla Walla" plant, though I don't remember what it was advertising.
Maybe we're talking about the same game.
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Gary McGath    http://www.mcgath.com