Ah, yes, I remember it well.

June 6, 2018

The Kearny, NJ-based Observer is holding an essay contest on favorite summer baseball memories.

From the online story:

Enter the contest by sending your family baseball memories — you can even write the memories together as a family — to us at editorial@theobserver.com by Wednesday, June 13, at 3 p.m. (Entries received thereafter won’t be considered for the contest.) We’ll choose the one we deem the best — and that person will win 4 flex tickets, good for field-level seats to any upcoming Jackals home game. We’ll also publish your story in print and online editions of The Observer at a date yet to be determined.

For the uninitiated, the Jackals are a team in the independent Can-Am League.The field is located on the campus of Montclair State University and is right next door to the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center.

So here’s what I sent in:

Our daughter, Rachel, turned two years old on July 1, 1995. That was the day we took her to her first professional game to see the Binghamton Bees, then a minor league affiliate in the NY Mets system.
As an infant, I used to sing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” as her lullaby. When the seventh inning stretch came at the Bees’ game and the crowd starting singing, she looked around with wide eyes, amazed that so many people knew “her” song.
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