HERE is opening day in 1960 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Notice the attire of the fans. People don’t dress this well to go to church today.

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James P. writes:

The last time I went to Candlestick Park was the late 1990s.

The fans were, needless to say, not wearing suits, and the game was chiefly notable for the large number of brawls that broke out in the stands (it being Giants versus Dodgers).

That may even be the last baseball game I attended.

Thomas F. Bertonneau writes:

I note how few men are wearing baseball hats.  Most of the white males are hatless; many of the black males favor the fedora hat.  The dearth of baseball hats is truly striking because a baseball stadium is the one place where that otherwise childish item of male apparel is appropriate.  Among the baseball hats that do appear in the two photographs, none is worn backwards.  I have performed a thought-experiment, placing the two photographs from 1960 mentally side-by-side with any two photographs taken in a public space today in the contiguous forty-eight states.  My conclusion, with a debt to the late Mort Sahl, is: Darwin was wrong.

 Laura writes:

Ha!

Dr. Bertonneau writes:

According to Wikipedia, Mort Sahl is (how shall I put this?) not so “late.”  More power to him (an honest Left-Winger), as my Swedish-Baptist grandmother used to say.

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