Lineup for Yesterday

Lineup for Yesterday — page 1
Once upon a Time My father Ogden Nash grew up in Rye New York in the early 1900s My grandfather made a point of taking him to all the baseball games he could in the area even when my father was supposed to stay at home in bed with a summer cold It was then that my father’s passionate love of the game was born a love that ended only with his death in 1971 father at old Oriole Park in the early 1940s The crunch of peanut shells between my I shall always remember the hot summer days of my own childhood spent with my fingers the sing-song calls of the vendors the hot dogs that tasted better than any other hot dogs and at last the staccato cry of Play ball The Nashes were avid fans of Jack Dunn’s International League Orioles and we were ecstatic when they won the Little World Series in 1944 We always sat on the first base side a lineup of Nashes my father my sister Isabel me and my mother Frances Both my parents kept score faithfully and taught Isabel and me the intricacies of doing so ourselves I still equate 4