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Posted By: jim sexton

Twenty eight years ago my Father died. After the funeral I was going through some of his personal effects and found an envelope containing four ticket stubs from the old Lexington Avenue ball park here in St. Paul. The tickets were dated 1923 and 1924 with one undated. My dad was 21 at the time. I kept the stubs as a great remembrance of my dad who had attended those games.

Fast forward to last week when I was looking through the current SABR publication, NATIONAL PASTIME. One of the articles was about the 1924 Junior World Series between the St. Paul Saints (my home) and the Baltimore Orioles.
(Each year the pennant winner of the American Assoc. and the International League would face each other) It was scheduled as the best out of nine games, which ultimately went 10 because of a tie that had to be replayed.
The first 5 were played in Baltimore, the balance in St. Paul. St Paul won it in ten.

The article reminded me of my old ticket stubs. I pulled them out, and sure enough there was a stub for game nine. The starting pitcher for the Orioles that day was Lefty Grove. My dad never mentioned he saw Lefty Grove play, probably because he had no reason at the time to remember the name of that pitcher.