{"id":1617,"date":"2018-03-26T14:29:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T18:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2018-03-26T14:29:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T18:29:55","slug":"pad-24-25-26-take-me-out-to-the-ballgame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1617","title":{"rendered":"PAD #24, 25, 26: Take Me Out to the Ballgame"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been home for a full weekend for several weeks and with a mostly caught up to do list, I decided to take a weekend off. What does that mean? I read Ken Follett’s A Column of Fire and crocheted while watching reruns of The West Wing. I cooked some good meals and baked scones. I meditated and did most of the laundry.<\/p>\n

But now I am back at work a bit…it is Spring Break somewhere in the world, right? And I didn’t want to miss Opening Day. I do not have the passion for baseball that some of my friends do but I appreciate its calm cerebral pacing and would love to learn to fill out a score sheet. Perhaps a retirement plan?<\/p>\n

For now, a few visual reminders of the nation’s pass time, discovered at the Digital Public Library of America<\/a>. The collage is all public domain imagery including the sheet music.<\/p>\n

\"Opening<\/a><\/p>\n

The two postcards are from the Tichnor Brothers Postcard Collection <\/a>at the Boston Public Library. I have a few old postcards but none as beautiful and evocative as these. And, they are listed as having no known copyright restrictions. \"Ebbets<\/a> \"Yankee<\/a><\/p>\n

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