I sure as hell don’t want to talk about football this morning. As my son woke me up at 6am, I needed something to watch to cheer me up. I turned to something I had started watching on these early Sunday mornings during football season… before the current day coverage began. On MLB Network there was this show called “Baseball Seasons”, which was an hour long summary of a particular year in baseball. I really enjoyed the few that I watched, so I thought, I’d like to watch each one of those, in order. I found out that the first episode of this series summarized the year in baseball in 1959.
Talk about some giants of the game playing at that time. We’re talking Aaron, Mays, Mantle. It was no surprise those were some of the top teams of the era, including that year of 1959. They started giving some background… a little history of the teams that would eventually face off in the World Series that year. They talked about the Dodgers and Jackie Robinson, who had retired at that point. I remember doing a paper on Jackie in school; I really liked him. He’s one of my son’s favorites today. Plus, the team I played on growing up was the Dodgers; I had plenty of Dodgers gear, even a Brooklyn jersey. The year before in 1958 the Dodgers moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, the same year the Giants made the same cross country move from New York to San Francisco. I couldn’t imagine being fans of those teams at the time of the move. We complain about our teams today, decisions that are made or not made, but to have your team picked up and moved across country… wow; I couldn’t even imagine. I profess my love for my Chicago teams on here frequently; how would I feel if it was the San Antonio Cubs, or the San Diego Bears? Just brutal for all the fans in New York who watched their favorite baseball team pick up and leave.
Some other cool history that they showed was Roy Campanella. He was a multiple MVP winner and one of the best catchers of all time. Unfortunately, he got in a car accident and got paralyzed; talk about brutal. They showed when they brought him out in Los Angeles in an exhibition game that raised money for his medical bills; man, how times have changed. They turned off the lights and had each fan light one match. Even with the poor video quality, you could tell how awesome that was; I could only imagine being there for it. So yes, the Dodgers would make the World Series that year, outlasting both the Mays, Cepeda, and McCovey Giants and the Aaron & Matthews Braves.
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It was a good choice to watch this on YouTube. I plan on watching every year and talking about it here. It will be a good lesson in baseball history. It will be a good break from current day sports in Chicago, which by checking my current Twitter timeline include talking about how bad the Blackhawks are, how the Bulls are still trying to learn how to win and not blow games down the stretch, and even worse, Bears talk, including who the better QB was between Cutler and Trubisky (can I select neither?) while we see the Packers advance to the NFC Championship game. Yeah, this will be a good break, and I’m sure I’ll learn some stuff too. Talk soon…
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