Take Me Out To The Ballgame

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That daughter of mine…

Is an assistant academic counselor…works with student athletes…has learned a lot about collegiate sports…likes to cheer on the various teams…

Invited mama-me to come see the last home baseball series of the season…Nebraska vs Iowa…perfect weather…Mother’s Day weekend…quality time with someone special…

Packed the bags and headed out…excited to see that girl of mine but just as excited to watch baseball because baseball was a thing growing up…the ‘St. Louis Cardinals’ was a thing growing up…

That family of mine obsessed…watched games on TV…listened to them on the radio…took a trip to St. Louis once a year to watch them live…

Those were the days…fun family days…young-me eating the best chili dog ever crushing on Keith Hernandez days…that thing called baseball bringing us all together…

And who knew here we’d be 50 years later…mother and daughter…bonding over that thing called baseball…crooning our hearts out during 7th inning stretch…

Take me out to the ballgame…Take me out to the crowd…

It doesn’t get any better than that…
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And that daughter of mine…agrees…