Boston Red Sox vs. New York Yankees, M.L.B.: Aaron Judge is on the cusp of history. He has 60 home runs so far this season, tying the mark Babe Ruth set in 1927 and just one shy of Roger Maris’s 61.
Some refer to the record he’s chasing as the Yankees record, or the American League record. But Judge is also chasing the non-steroid record, since every player with more than 61 home runs in a season has been linked to performance-enhancing drugs.
Regardless of whether you consider those numbers legitimate, Judge’s year has been remarkable: On top of the home runs, he might also win the triple crown. Sunday at 7 p.m. Eastern, ESPN.
----New York Times
For the rest of the season, Judge will be pitched special baseballs that the M.L.B. can verify are the real deal.
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Back in the good ol' days of the late '50s-'60s, while attending junior high and high school, we were allowed to take time out from our classes to listen to the World Series baseball games.
The school administration would broadcast the radio games over the intercom. Those were the days of Willie Mays, Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Roger Maris.
Those years were, in my mind, the golden era of baseball when kids played recess ball and collected baseball cards and fervantly followed their favorite teams and players.
Willie Mays was always my favorite.
It was also a time when football had not yet taken over as the major American TV sport. Baseball still reigned as king of professional and everyday sports.
As one who seldom follows Major League baseball anymore, I feel a bit like an outsider who dares to include the information above.
Still, it's really exciting to think about the possibilities of this young man surpassing a record that has stood for so long---the Roger Maris record that virtually every kid of my era followed and applauded when it was set way back when.
I hope Aaron Judge, without steroids, breaks Maris' homerun record and earns his own special place in baseball history and in the hearts all baseball fans.
It will be a refreshing sports story for all of us---even those of us who long ago left the baseball fixation behind---to applaud.
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In other news, it's a beautiful Saturday in the neighborhood where Bill, Annie, Willie and Debbie will head to the Coeur d'Alene River for fishing.
I'll be staying home to prepare a dinner of homemade tacos for when they return. I'll also process some more jelly and maybe even make some quiches, using the garden chard, if time allows.
We have been promised a week of the glorious fall days that so many of us live for.
Besides the pleasant weather, there's also a sense of calmness to fall as gardening and yardwork has died down, along with many of the annual events and family visits and such.
Urgency is replaced by a more relaxed approach to each day.
I felt that sense of calmness and enjoyment yesterday. First of all, my gut problems of the previous day had settled down but more importantly two separate visitors from the neighborhood dropped by.
At the time, the only item on my agenda with any urgency whatsover was the pot of plums cooking on the stove.
And, so when Becky and Shawn from next door rolled in the driveway with Stan Meserve's old truck, I happily settled in for a wonderful visit around the front of that old truck.
They've been here the past week working on some projects at the Meserve Preserve, and they'd just made a dump run.
So, we chatted and just plain enjoyed catching up and reminiscing and maybe telling a few good zingers.
About an hour after they left and after the plums had been taken off the burner, my dear friend Ruthann and her two pups in her side by side 4-wheeler came in the driveway.
Twas another nice interlude of catch-up with a friend.
We topped the day off with the Love bunch enjoying dinner at the Farmhouse Restaurant where again we saw our neighbors, Tricia and Trent and other longtime friends, Dale and JoAnn VanStone from Hope.
I loved the day, and I have a feeling I'll feel the same about the days ahead.
It's a great time of year, and we are blessed with some lovely weather ahead.
Happy Saturday.
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