Nuns Know Baseball
My grammar school was blessed to be taught by the School Sisters of Notre Dame. Their Mother House or novitiate or something was located in Baltimore, Maryland. As I paid attention to them year after year, I noticed that everytime the subject of baseball somehow came into consideration, they would mention only the Baltimoere Orioles. I was a Rochester, New York kid, in love with The Rochester Red Wings of the International League. The Baltimore Orioles were our RIVALS! Not ball-itically correct to mention the Orioles! But it also bothered me that they were, seemingly, the only team that the sisters knew anything about. I felt they should mention a variety of teams, to show that they knew a little something about the subject. At least a Major League team once in a while. How ironic – years later the Baltimore Orioles WERE a Major League team, and a World Series team, with an outstanding, notable stadium. Not so the Red Wings.
