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   SherlockWatson said, 3 months ago

   The first one was a ball, the second one was a strike, and the third one was a foul mood.
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   simpsonfan2 said, 3 months ago

   Whatever year this is from, it doesn’t really matter.
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   Estrelita Phillips said, 3 months ago

   Since al the men are wearing hats, it is most likely from the 30s or 40s. Could be as late as the mid-50s. When I was growing up, no one ever went outside without a hat – men, women, children. Always had to have a hat on your head. Then, all of a sudden, men stopped wearing hats. Many wore baseball caps, but you rarely see a man wearing a hat these days. Don’t know why they changed. Most of those guys look pretty fetching in their chapeaux!
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   coolhand000 said, 3 months ago

   You win some and you lose some . . .But Mutt . .??
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   Number Three said, 3 months ago

   It’s only a game… Temper Temper!

   xxx
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   sammysock said, 3 months ago

   John F. Kennedy started the no hat tradition. Politicians, diplomats, etc always wore formal hats for ceremonies. He refused to wear them and it caught on.
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   WW2 Marine Veteran said, 3 months ago

   @Number Three

   Typical of how some parents act at todays Little League games.
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   Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 3 months ago

   @Estrelita Phillips

   I understand some of the kids are wearing hats, but “ironically,” however that’s supposed to be taken. I, on the other hand have recently picked up the hat habit, and have a number of both new and “vintage” hats, largely classic fedora style, with a couple of fedora/pork-pie hybrids.
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   alleyoops said, 3 months ago

   I used to umpire kids games. It wasn’t the dads I had a problem with, it was the moms. They didn’t know much about the rules, only that their kid was always right.
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    derry1 said, 3 months ago

    Cannoy one side support poor Mutt against the other side?
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    brklnbern said, 3 months ago

    Poor Mutt. Reminds me of a favorite baseball story. Many years ago an umpire for a major league game was being heckled. One woman in the crowd yelled out. If you were my husband, I’d serve you poison. The umpire remarked back. Lady, if you were my wife, I’d take it.
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    TheAuldWan said, 3 months ago

    Too true…

    brkkinbern: Winnie Churchill said it….
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    Saucy1121 said, 3 months ago

    @Estrelita Phillips

    I’ve seen attributed to the change in cars. If you look at older cars from the 30s and 40s, there’s plenty of room for men to wear their hats in the car. With the sleeker cars into the 60s, there was less head room (pun intended) so hats lost some popularity.
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    Bobzilla said, 3 months ago

    Teach Umpiring. Apply: Lighthouse for the Blind.
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    Estrelita Phillips said, 3 months ago

    @Saucy1121

    Re: Saucy1121 said, about 8 hours ago
    @Estrelita Phillips
    I’ve seen attributed to the change in cars. If you look at older cars from the 30s and 40s, there’s plenty of room for men to wear their hats in the car. With the sleeker cars into the 60s, there was less head room (pun intended) so hats lost some popularity.

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    Something else which was great about the cars from the 30s and 40s were those running boards. I have watched many, many senior citizens, who are a little bit lame, struggle to get into a “modern” car. But I know that we have moving pictures of our grandparents going out to take a drive and easily stepping onto the running board and then easily stepping into the car.

    We live in a western state, where the sun can be extremely brutal in the summer time. So it seems to me to be a real shame that wearing hats suddenly fell out of fashion. I am sure that the hats did a lot to protect people from serious sunburn and other dangerous situations which can develop from too much sun,
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