One of the points in the podcast is that the things you remember the most often are the things that change the most and have details added and subtracted. The memory gets “re-recorded” every time you recall it. It is exactly like the game “telephone” in your brain. Memory is profoundly unreliable. It is a very strange to think about.

The first is that I took my son to his first game in 1972 when he was 4 years old and we sat in the Yankee Stadium bleachers where, prior to the game start, he was knocked off his seat by some rowdies, hitting his head on the concrete. We stayed anyway as the Yankees lost a double header 8-0 and 8-4 to the White Sox with the winning pitchers being Wilbur Wood and Stan Bahnsen, the latter making it even more aggravating as he was the player dealt for Rich McKinney.

The problem is I can find no record of any such double header either in 1972 or in any of 2 years around it.

The second is that on a school night I took my son to a NY-Minn game which went 19 innings so that we left the stadium after 2 am, got home at 3 am to face a rather angry wife who made sure we both got up in time for school and work the next day. As I recalled, the Yankees won when Mickey Rivers tripled over the center fielder’s head with a runner on first to win the game.

At least I got much of this right. Rivers did win it, but with a single that drove in Gamble from 2B. (I can still see the ball clear the center fielder’s reach and rolling to the wall.). Maybe I called it a triple in my head, or maybe Rivers kept running. The game did end after 1:30 which would make our arrival at home about 3 am. The trouble is the game took place on August 25 when there was no school, and probably no camp either, and when I would not have been working. (It was the day before our anniversary. I wonder if that coincidence got mixed up with something in my head.)