You know that you're old school if you can....

Big League Chew...thank you Jim Bouton!

I remember when Nickeldeon used to SIGN OFF at 8pm Eastern. That was back when it still showed episodes of "Tomorrow People."

 

Don Kirschner's Rock Concert
The Midnight Special
Go-Go girls

 

Watching "This Week in Baseball" every week especially for the highlight and blooper packages. I get a good dose of nostalgia when I see them on ESPN Classic.

 

How about Home Run Derby. I remember Hank Aaron winning.

 

The Addams Family

 

Good one, Gold, but I was more of a Munsters fan than Addams Family. Al Lewis is Grandpa was the best.

 

when the tv day would start by playing the National Anthem.....anytime I saw that, I knew I was up early.

 

Not to mention the interminable wait for the set to "warm up" once you turned it on.

 

Yeah, it would sit and buzz for like two minutes, then flash on in a deep red color. Boy, I remember kicking the shit out of that set on Saturday afternoons in the fall when it would screw up during a football game -- the only televised football game of the day.

Anybody play "Pull" baseball? "Pull" ball was when you didn't have enough for a full baseball game but still wanted to play. We'd play four-on-four or five-on-five. A pitcher, a shortstop and two outfielders. (If there was a fifth, he played third.) Everything had to be hit to the left of second base. To the right was an automatic out. You threw to the pitcher to get the batter out on a ground ball.

We played damn near every night in the summer from the seventh grade on up until I graduated from high school. There were some nights on the little league fields around our house in which all eight fields had pickup games being played. In the fall, we used the outfields for football games.

I've got a park right by my house now. Drive by it every day. I see pickup games out there once a week -- pickup games of that frisbee shit. And not a soul out there is under 25 years old.

 

...remember when the NBA was watchable.

 

Watching The Baseball Bunch on Saturday mornings and being (sadly) entertained by it. The show had the same diverse casting as your average early 1980s screwball boob flick -- you had the nerd, the jock, the fat kid, the Asian guy who knew about physics and stuff, the tomboy and an everyman or two mixed in for good measure.

Bucky Dent once said the best way to break in a glove was to coat it with shaving cream and let it sit for a day or two. I have no memory of high school algebra, but I've never forgotten that shit.

 

remember Robert Merrill.