Comments on: Road Games

By: Walt Hug

Walt Hug — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:00:06 +0000

Jim,
I just discovered your blog and this article…and I know I am adding a comment a couple of years late…your writing is great – and your description of going to Connie Mack for the first time is just like mine. My favorite Phillie growing up was Johnny Callison – who happened to live in our town – Glenside (along with catcher Clay Dalyrmple), back in our very innocent and better times.
I now need to discover more of your writings here!

By: Jim Gourley

Jim Gourley — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:52:18 +0000

Ballantine’s in their, Bill, second paragraph.

By: Bill K

Bill K — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:24:35 +0000

How ’bout Ballentine?? They sponsored those sorry Phils for years in the 50′s and 60′s.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:27:01 +0000

Move the scene to the South Side of Chicago and change the team to the White Sox and I suffered along with you in the same years. I was a fireman on a Rock Island switch engine the night they clinched the pennant in ’59, so we celebrated with literal bells and whistles. Thanks for a great reminiscence that rang all my bells, Jim.

By: Josianne

Josianne — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 11:28:26 +0000

Great piece, Jim. I’ve always loathed baseball, so I probably was in that Genghis Khan horde and just had to marry a rabid baseball fan. But…you write so articulately about how baseball has touched your life that I almost understand the passion.

Come watch anytime. Mi casa es su casa.

By: jg

jg — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:18:30 +0000

Thanks so much for that, Jonathan. It always nice to know that someone is reading, as well as appreciating the effort.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:36:57 +0000

Your beautiful writing reached my beautiful, beloved son who’s now living, editing, writing in Beijing. From my shared baseball memories with my father, to my son’s sharing yours with me, thank you.

By: jg

jg — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:02:39 +0000

There were those too, as well as several others. My father had a taste for Gretz.

By: bhb

bhb — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:56:03 +0000

I remember different beers as being favored, such as Schlitz and Schaefer and Philadelphia’s own Schmidt’s Beer.