You in all probability aren’t a lot within the temper for a historical past lesson proper now. Not on the morning after we stated goodbye to baseball. Not with the bitterness of the Yankees’ 5-2 loss to the Blue Jays on Wednesday night time nonetheless contemporary in your reminiscence. Not with this decisive 3-1 education within the ALDS nonetheless ringing in your ears. That’s truthful sufficient.
So I’ll solely briefly introduce you to a person named Ren Mulford Jr., one of many very first baseball writers, who largely earned his residing for “The Sporting Life.” It was Mulford who, in 1913, wrote the next sentence, as a fare-thee-well to that season’s New York baseball Giants:
“Right here’s the place the ‘Wait Until Subsequent 12 months!’ refrain has an opportunity.”
This feels related proper now, as a result of the Yankees have inherited the mantle of that outdated Brooklyn battle cry, which first spilled out of the typewriter of Mulford 122 years in the past, adopted for the following 4 many years by the Dodgers earlier than they fled the Borough of Church buildings.
