{"id":9968,"date":"2011-09-05T14:37:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T19:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=9968"},"modified":"2011-09-05T14:58:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T19:58:01","slug":"memories-set-early-are-set-eternally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/05\/memories-set-early-are-set-eternally\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories Set Early Are Set Eternally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that the Milwaukee Brewers are poised to make the run to their first world title and my fanmeleon colors are changing from Cardinals red to Brewers blue, I hearken back to the year 1982, when the Brew Crew reached the World Series for the first and only time (so far). I was a wee lad living in the Berryland housing project with a freshly divorced single parent from St. Louis, and the Brewers played the Cardinals. My mother had a plastic baseball bat that she used to beat on the walls of the townhome style apartment to let the neighbors on either side know when the Cardinals scored. A couple years later, and I was a freshly minted Cardinals fan thanks to relocation and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em> re-education program where the paper gave out free tickets to Cardinals games to students who got As in school.<\/p>\n

For some reason, today I got to thinking about the lineups for the 1982 World Series, and I can give almost a complete recounting of the position players for both teams<\/em>. Check it out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
 <\/td>\nBrewers<\/td>\nCardinals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Catcher:<\/td>\nSimmons<\/td>\nPorter<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
First Base:<\/td>\nCooper<\/td>\nHernandez<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Second Base:<\/td>\nGarner<\/td>\nHerr<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shortstop:<\/td>\nMolitor<\/td>\nO. Smith<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Third:<\/td>\nYount<\/td>\n<\/td>\n
Outfield:<\/td>\nThomas
Oglive<\/td>\n		L. Smith
McGee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pitchers:<\/td>\nVukovich
Caldwell
Haas
McClure
Fingers*<\/super><\/td>\n		 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

* did not play due to injury, sadly.<\/p>\n

That’s off the top of my head. Not bad. Actually, it’s better than I could do remembering the 2006 Cardinals who won the World Series. I could also take stabs at the lineups to the 1985 and 1987 World Series Cardinals teams, but some of the years will blur and blend since I followed the Cardinals so well.<\/p>\n

How did I do?<\/p>\n

For the Brewers, I misspelled Jim Gantner’s name, although I could picture him in my head. I also forgot poor Charlie Moore and transposed Yount and Molitor’s positions.<\/p>\n

For the Cardinals, I forgot Oberkfell and Hendrick; both were gone by the time I got to St. Louis. I couldn’t name for sure the pitchers, although many of them carried on into the years of my fandom.<\/p>\n

I guess it stuck with me because it was such a snapshot moment. I’ve followed the Cardinals off and on for 25 years or so, so I have certain eras where the players overlap, come up, get traded, and so on. But 1982, because I was young, because it was a big deal, and because I would soon move and follow another team, is set pretty tightly in my memory.<\/p>\n

And before you ask, of course<\/em> I still have the baseball cards from the era, including the special ones given out by Milwaukee police officers to prove to urban youth that the cops aren’t scary. I am a 27th Level Pack Rat, after all.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/b><\/font> What, you unbelievers ask me to prove it? Here’s the 1982 Team Card:<\/p>\n

\n\"Milwaukee<\/a><\/p>\n

Brothers and Sisters, not only am I a Level 27 Pack Rat, but I’ve been a pack rat for more than two decades already. By the time you experience “Ultra Hoarders in 3-D” via Mynd.Net in 2021, I will be on its all-star list by age fifty.<\/em><\/p>\n

Also, I gotta say, having a +2 House of Holding rocks. Not only can I keep all this worthless junk, but I can put my hands onto items within minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that the Milwaukee Brewers are poised to make the run to their first world title and my fanmeleon colors are changing from Cardinals red to Brewers blue, I hearken back to the year 1982, when the Brew Crew reached the World Series for the first and only time (so far). I was a wee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9968"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9971,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968\/revisions\/9971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}