The Power of Nostalgia
When I was 9 years old, my parents loaded up the car and took me to Cooperstown. I was a huge baseball fan growing up. After school, I would watch the day games at Wrigley field with Ryne Sandberg and Harry Carrey on WGN Then switch to TBS for Sanford and Sons reruns on TBS as it led up to the Atlanta Braves games with one of my boyhood favorites, Dale Murphy until I had to go to bed. We didn’t have cable then and the Red Sox were on NESN, so I was able to explore and fall in love with baseball as a fan of the game not locked into a team which happened later when I followed the family tradition and followed the Red Sox. In Cooperstown we stayed in a motel a few blocks away, it is still there. The day we arrived we just walked around, saw Doubleday field, all the main street shops, and other sites around town The second day was the day we went to the Baseball Hall of Fame. The shrine for the sport I loved. I was in heaven, I could and still do feel an aura around the to...