In Awe of Maurice
I’m usually the last to leave my office. Around 6pm, Maurice comes to our building to tidy the four suites on our floor and the one suite on the floor below ours. Tonight he asked me how he thought “our Dodgers” would do this year, and the conversation turned to my asking him when he arrived in Los Angeles. He told me 1958, the year the Dodgers first played in Los Angeles, four years before I was born.
I learned tonight he saw the Dodgers in the 1959 World Series against the Chicago White Sox at the Coliseum and he also went to Roy Campanella Night.
Both games had over 93,000 paid attendance. Dodger Stadium holds 56,000, by comparison. Take your local baseball stadium, fill it, then overfill it by two-thirds more again.
Pretty cool. I’m not sure if any TWO Dodger games I’ve ever attended have added up to 93,000.
The next time you see someone you often see who is a generation or two older, ask him or her about a cherished sports memory. Your jaw will probably drop in awe, too.
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