found some classic Americana:
If you know baseball, and baseball cinema, you'll recognize the images of the original Durham Bulls ballpark which the city has preserved as an urban park. And maybe you'll recall the scene in the film "Bull Durham" when the coach berates his players for being "Lollygaggers"... which is why my old grad school pals and I have started to call our annual meetup at a designated minor league baseball venue a Lollypalooza, and ourselves a
We started the annual August meetup in 2017, converging on Nashville from various far-flung places in the southeast U.S. (just two of us reside in middle TN). In subsequent years (missing only the first pandemic summer of '20) we've been to Chattanooga, Asheville, Huntsville, Lexington, Knoxville (Kodak TN), and now Durham.
For next year we're talking about Greenville SC, home of one of this year's new Lollygaggers. And the year after, since we've picked now up a Minnesotan (seems like that's suddenly a trend, since today is Tim Walz's veep candidacy debut), we may have to think about getting on a plane to St. Paul. After that, Fred, Durango?
Everyone should make a point of keeping up and meeting up with old friends through the decades. It really is like stepping back in time, for a weekend. It's a good and happiness-inducing thing to do.
And thanks to Younger Daughter for taking good care of the pooches in my absence. Maybe she needs a tee-shirt that says
My dad went to a ballgame and all I got was:
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