Why Are Most people on this Board in their 60s, 70s, 80s?

[The Nard]

Truth b known. Kids simply traded in their baseball mitts for cell phones. No competition.

That is true and also in the 1950's when I grew up, we didn't nave central. The best place to be in the summer was outside.

And we played baseball ALL the time.

We played every baseball day, hung up the cleats and went straight into football, then basketball, track, then back to baseball. Well rounded athletes.

For those of us northerners, we also played hockey in the winter. Both sports involved chasing a round object with a wooden stick.

[sikeston bulldog2]

Truth b known. Kids simply traded in their baseball mitts for cell phones. No competition.

That is true and also in the 1950's when I grew up, we didn't nave central. The best place to be in the summer was outside.

And we played baseball ALL the time.

We played every baseball day, hung up the cleats and went straight into football, then basketball, track, then back to baseball. Well rounded athletes.

For those of us northerners, we also played hockey in the winter. Both sports involved chasing a round object with a wooden stick.

Yes. We tried to play on frozen ditches. Our frozen ice time was very short in southern Missouri. Sometimes we’d play street hockey in our shoes on ice covered roads. No nets. Just a line to cross.

[11WSChamps]

Someone did a poll here a while ago and most of the board is in their retirement ages.

Why do you think that is? I'm 41 and i think i'm one of the younger ones on here

possibilities:
-the younger crowd consumes their info more with apps, podcasts?
-Baseball doesn't quite draw in the younger generations like the NFL, NBA does? MLB doesn't seem as cool to them?

your thoughts

I suspect it’s because many of us were raised by baseball fans in a time when keeping a scorecard with a pencil was commonplace. Riding your bike to school was too. Catching crawdads and fishing were hobbies. Coming home when the street lights came on was the rule. Harry Carey and Jack Buck were gods. 1120 KMOX was always there, for every pitch, on a transistor radio. Baseball is in our blood. We wouldn’t know life without it.

You forgot the neighborhood mosquito fog spray truck around dusk in the summer time and y hat light scent of napalm hanging in the air.

[sikeston bulldog2]

Someone did a poll here a while ago and most of the board is in their retirement ages.

Why do you think that is? I'm 41 and i think i'm one of the younger ones on here

possibilities:
-the younger crowd consumes their info more with apps, podcasts?
-Baseball doesn't quite draw in the younger generations like the NFL, NBA does? MLB doesn't seem as cool to them?

your thoughts

I suspect it’s because many of us were raised by baseball fans in a time when keeping a scorecard with a pencil was commonplace. Riding your bike to school was too. Catching crawdads and fishing were hobbies. Coming home when the street lights came on was the rule. Harry Carey and Jack Buck were gods. 1120 KMOX was always there, for every pitch, on a transistor radio. Baseball is in our blood. We wouldn’t know life without it.

You forgot the neighborhood mosquito fog spray truck around dusk in the summer time and y hat light scent of napalm hanging in the air.

We used to ride bikes behind the truck in the fog. Loved that smell.

[Galatians221jb1]

Look around and see how many people under 60 who read newspapers. They’re like pay phones. Most of us probably read the Post (Globe was my preference) and worked the crosswords at breakfast etc. Today, virtually no one watches local TV news and they don’t know what a newspaper is. We relics have adjusted to on line newspapers. Probably won’t be too much longer that this option is gone. Lee publishing is fading quietly from the scene. If CT shuts down some of us will turn into those people walking down the street and screaming at windows and mannequins.

Hello. Is there anybody in there. Just smile if you can hear me; is there anyone at home.