WHOOPS: Boy are our faces red. To err is human, and we showed our humanity in Tuesday’s edition.
Many readers noted the story on the front page about the special election in southern Pennsylvania. It happened March 13. Mea culpa.
And pages A-8 and B-8 looked remarkably similar. Again, mea culpa.
Sometimes computers make things easier. Sometimes, not so much.
Sorry readers. We’ll do better.
BASEBALL:Thursday is the 2018 Major League Baseball season opener, and to celebrate, we looked back 75 years.
On the first day of the Major League season on Tuesday, April 20, 1943, national interest in the sport was high, but World War II — and the draft — meant fewer players available to take the field.
The pages of The Era described what was in store that day: “Baseball will rap for attention tomorrow with the first game of the 1943 major league season and give fans a chance to observe for themselves what the national pastime is going to look like in its second year of the present war.
“The crack of bats against horsehide in the nation’s capital as the Washington Senators and Philadelphia Athletics square away probably will get a bigger response from a lot of people than all the gavel pounding on capitol hill —for this one day — because a crowd of 25,000 is expected at Griffith stadium.”
Other fanfare was planned, too.
“There also will be band music, raising of flags, including the hoisting of the American league pennant at Yankee stadium with League President William Harridge officiating, and other traditional trappings of inaugural games. This year service men also will take part in the ceremonies at many parks.
“Another traditional factor in the opening games, the weather, is bothering the major league magnates and fans alike again this year in spite of the fact that the start of the season is a week later than usual.
“Many exhibition games, sorely needed by the clubs to get into proper competitive shape, have had to be cancelled in recent days and baseball people were keeping their fingers figuratively crossed today hoping for a good break in the inaugurals.”
