Cleveland 'Lost'

October 1, 2007

From the October issue of the always thought-provoking Lost Magazine, this essay on the lost innocence within a childhood memory, in this instance, the Cleveland Indians and the 1954 World Series.
After watching the Mets go down in flames yesterday (go ahead, torch the stadium, too), and seeing all the distraught faces in the crowd as the innings of 2007 slipped away (“Like the sands in an hourglass…”), I wonder if the disappointment will haunt today’s young fans — with their iPods and computes, and thousands of other diversions — the way such events did a couple of generations ago, when baseball was basically the only game in town, and then basically a radio sport.

 

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