Word: rememberers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once--that is, anytime practically pre-1989--baseball was in its golden age. Remember 1988. Remember 1977. Great series like those will never occur again. Baseball's in decline. My favorite team's glory is over.
If baseball's past was grander, it is only because we don't remember it. Babe Ruth was traded. The Black Sox scandal was not fiction. And the Red Sox and Cubs have come closer to championships than a lot of other teams.
It was always field hockey. I vaguely remember a column he wrote a few years ago. Field hockey this and field hockey that. Yet the Crimson kept on losing. It was like some kind of fascination. He is a Indians fan.
In Boston, Historian Hugh Thomas (Lord Thomas of Swynnerton) said the world now is a "tessellated pavement without cement." He was quoting something Edmund Burke said about Charles Townshend, a brilliant but erratic 18th century British statesman. Not bad, but somewhat mandarin. The audience had to remember, or look up...
Now, most of you probably didn't even know that Harvard had a cheerleading squad. And now that you do, some of you may be conjuring up an image of a cheerleader that isn't all that flattering. And this image probably doesn't coincide with your conception of the...