Oh, the places you’ll go

October 5, 2018

Had a great time in Old London Town last week. Tried to get some baseball stuff going over there, but it was a fool’s errand. The British Baseball Federation website had an address that was years-old. I found that out the hard way, making a trip out there in hopes of exchanging a copy of 501 Baseball Books for a team cap. Alas, ’twas not to be.

But I did give a the book to the Kennsington Hotel library, so I was able to accomplish at lieast part of my “mission.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While at the Kennsington, we also made the acquaintance of Ken and Lynn Tepper, a lovely couple from Toronto who were similarly vacationing in London. We had a nice time chatting about sports and other things. But mostly sports.

Our encounter reminded me of a scene from one of my favorite movies, That Thing You Do, when Guy Patterson, the group’s drummer meets his idol, legendary jazz man Del Paxton who’s playing at an LA club. The cocktail waitress, brings him over to Paxton and some cronies, saying, “This kid has actually heard of you.” That’s kind of how I felt when I learned that Ken had read Hank Greenberg in 1938. Ken had actually heard of me. Ha.

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