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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Just learned that my father was at Ted Williams's last game. How did I not know that?
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I was at that game as a junior high school student. My father had been temporarily transferred to Massachusetts, and he had been comped tickets by a salesman. Moreover....I read the Times article about the 8 millimeter movie, as you probably did...my father took a film with his 8 millimeter camera as well. We always knew the film existed. My brother, as we speak, is searching through the film-converted-to-CDs for the possibility that we have a Hall of Fame piece of film of the last home run by Ted Williams. I have the film itself in an airtight metal tin. The trouble is, neither the film tins nor the CDs are properly labeled, and we have to go through every vacation, every Thanksgiving, every Christmas from about 1946 to 1964 to find the right few seconds of film.
It is going to be a rainy weekend. Good time to look at old home movies.
P.S. The number of people who attended that game was approximate 3 million, if they are to be believed. I think I've got proof.
