Rhubarb!

[ashetlandpony]

I can't be certain, as there is no date on this article, but I believe the baseball brouhaha highlighted in the last paragraph below took place 57 years ago today, on August 15, 1965, at Ralph Welch Park in Pomona.

Comments

[c_eagle]

That's quite the story! Glad to see ya found a news clipping also! (and didn't get trampled....)

[ashetlandpony]

It's funny, I knew about the clippings for ages but don't remember actually reading them until now. I actually LOLed when I saw the mention of the rhubarb! Of course I never forgot that; I was just never sure exactly when it had happened. Now I know!

[sabotlours]

I want to know more about the sod story!

[ashetlandpony]

*chuckle* First of all, it wasn't malicious. If I recall, we simply discovered it was really easy to just lift whole pieces of sod free of the ground underneath. So we lifted one square foot off, then another, then another. Had a nice checkerboard-type thing going on when we were discovered by the groundskeeper, and summarily ejected from the ballpark. "But... but... my dad's a coach!" Didn't matter. We were escorted out the gate and weren't allowed back in. Nor were our parents apparently told; they only discovered after the game that we were outside. I don't recall if I got spanked for it. Probably not. But I don't think we ever went back to Ralph Welch Park after that. And they probably just put the sod back in place, too. No real damage done. But a lesson did need to be taught, and we learned it!