Oh, Henry

The year he made history. I visit to Truist Field came in the 50th anniversary season of Hank Aaron beating Babe Ruth’s overall home run record. I remember honoring Henry that day as a young teenager after he hit the homer off Al Downing and rounded the bases. Photo opp squared. KP and I appreciated…

Go to Truist Park early

New spaces and places. As we drove from KP and Sue’s lovely house in Fayetteville, Ga., toward the afternoon baseball game between my New York Mets and home team Atlanta Braves, my since-the-early 80s friend provided me a history about the ballpark we were approaching. The Braves organization in this century decided to leave the…

One heck of a road game

Georgia on my mind. My dear wife Karen used her card points to buy me plane tickets to visit my great friend KP and his fantastic wife Sue in their near-Atlanta home. I’ve been talking about that trip south in a spring month since, well, pretty much soon after they moved from Central New York…