When I was growing up, baseball was king – The News Journal

When I was growing up, baseball was king – The News Journal

Baseball season opened last week. When I was a young boy baseball was undeniably king. Today, it is overshadowed by both professional football and basketball, but back in the summer of 1950, when I was 10 years old, I knew very little about any professional sports other than baseball. I had never seen a big league game and neither had any of my friends. That didn’t stop us from knowing about the game. The box scores were in the newspaper every d…