re: Most memorable and forgettable family experience

I had a Great Aunt who had been blind since she was 5. I suppose she was born around 1900 or so, she was in her 80's, in the 80's.

She never missed a Cardinals game on the radio, if I had to guess I'd say she listened to games for 60 years at least. When I was a kid she would regale me with stories of Dizzy Dean, Daffy Dean, Ducky Medwick, and the entire Gashouse Gang. Slaughter's Mad Dash, a young Stan The Man, and Ol' Red. In her mind she had seen them all, even though she had never seen an inning of baseball in her life, she could describe it like it all happened right in front of her.

I always loved picking her brain, and at the time I never once considered the fact that I was learning about the Cardinals from someone who had never actually seen a game, either live or on TV. I just lived for those stories.

I wish she had been around for 2011. She would have loved it.