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From: Gary McGath <garym@mcgath.com>
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Subject: Re: MT VOID, 03/07/25 -- Vol. 43, No. 36, Whole Number 2370
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 09:47:32 -0400
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On 3/9/25 9:27 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

> "Here's an example: we always went to day games.  One game lasted
> 14 innings.  Many years after that game (in 1969), I looked up the
> box score on BaseballReference.com.  It lasted 5 hours and 1
> minute, at a time the average 9-game lasted about 2:30.  We stayed
> the entire time because he knew I wanted to.  I think I did
> understand it then.  I certainly did understand it 'later on' and
> now."

That reminds me of a Red Sox game in the sixties that ran into many 
extra innings. In those days, commercials were on their own tapes, or 
something like that, and the TV crew had packed away all but two of the 
commercials, thinking the game would be over soon. They showed those two 
commercials over and over. I'll never forget the carnivorous "Walla 
Walla" plant, though I don't remember what it was advertising.

Maybe we're talking about the same game.




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