{"id":3412,"date":"2010-12-20T07:19:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T12:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3412"},"modified":"2010-12-20T11:05:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T16:05:23","slug":"morning-read-the-golden-age-of-north-country-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/12\/20\/morning-read-the-golden-age-of-north-country-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  The Golden Age of North Country Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Goetz has <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0300_sports\/x2007171637\/The-Only-Game-in-Town\">a great review up this morning in the Plattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a> of a new history of North Country town baseball, written by former pro-ball player Bob Garrow.\u00a0 It&#8217;s called &#8220;The Only Game In Town.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The author was pleasantly surprised by the information available from the very early days, before the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t think I would get much, but I was surprised to find as many accounts of games from the 1860s,&#8221; he reflected.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It  was very interesting, especially the language of the day, how things  were written compared to today. For example, the pitcher&#8217;s mound was  referred to as the box; and there was a lot of attention paid to the  spectators and what happened in the stands. People used to follow town  teams all over the place.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was in Moriah this fall for a big rivalry football game between the Vikings and the Saranac Lake Red Storm.\u00a0 I can only imagine what these town-to-town baseball clashes must have been like.<\/p>\n<p>Then came television and other cultural changes which eroded the game in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There was not a lot of money in baseball and certainly not enough to  compete with so many forms of entertainment that came about in the  fifties,&#8221; Garrow pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Gone were the days when townsfolk beamed with pride for their teams, looking anxiously toward the weekend,&#8221; Garrow wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0300_sports\/x2007171637\/The-Only-Game-in-Town\">Read the full review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Goetz has a great review up this morning in the Plattsburgh Press-Republican of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[194,7,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3413,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions\/3413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}