The 30th day of the sixth month of the year of the Camellia

A NEW BANNER WILL FLY!

Congratulations are in order for the South Carolina Baseball program!

National Champions and a new banner will surely fly at their stadium!

Last night's game against UCLA was classic baseball.  And both teams should be honored!   Forget who was playing, what for, and the incredible history surrounding the place.

The Game Cocks were destinies darling from the get go!

  Each player contributed as did their families and that experience could be felt even through  television!  

There were no long haired hippy types playing ball just to get a paycheck at the end of the game! 

 There WERE families in the stands, some of who could not watch when their sons came to bat! 

There were Sisters who actually cheered for their brothers, if for only a little while! 

There were fathers who had played on that same field bursting with pride for their sons!

There were some tears shed on the winning team as well as the losing team!

There was raw emotion!

This was apple pie and motherhood!

It was fourth down and inches, with seconds to go, in a tied game at the Super Bowl, on EVERY pitch for eleven innings!

There were players playing beyond their ability because that's what you do!

There was Rosenblatt Stadium!

There were fans who just wanted to be there, regardless of who was playing or who won, just to honor the old field for the last time! 

There was a right fielder who had his butt chewed out because he couldn't put down bunts nor call for a fly ball resulting in a nasty collision with his second baseman!

But HE drove in the winning run, and all is well in Mudville because mighty Casey (Whit Merrifield)  did get the hit in the 11th inning to win it for the Cocks. 

This was the last game capping sixty years of history at that place!

A fitting final game of honor for that place and that time!

And there were the good people of Omaha, who sixty years ago built it.

  And come they did!

Thanks Cocks!
Thanks Omaha!
Thanks Rosenblatt!