Although born and bred in this country, I waited until last Monday night to attend my first baseball game. Prior to the Dodgers’ victory over the Nationals (which the hockey fan in me kept thinking of as the Montreal Expos), the last baseball game I had seen was on October 16, 1969, when the my then hometown Mets won the World Series. What I recall to have been jubilatory excitement failed to spill into the following season, however, and theRead more