One of my favorite Father's Day Baseball Memories

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5. Favorite Father's Day memories were my grandfather would come to visit.

I was a little kid, but watched bb for hours. There were often 3 games to choose from; Yankees, Giants, and Dodgers on Sunday afternoons. The three of us watched mostly the Yankees [father and gf had seen the Babe play in person]. [We would go see 1 special game a year. I always chose Yanks v. Ted Williams].

One game, [very doubtful if it was Father's Day], was a game in which the Giant's Don Mueller, [pronounced Mule er, if I remember right], hit an inside-the-park home run, in the Polo Grounds. There were probably a number of such homers, with a 480' center field. The clubhouse was on top of that 480 wall, with outdoor steps leading to it.

Anyway, what made the Mueller hr memorable was that, Mueller was a slow, choke up the bat, contact hitter. The hr was a pop fly that each of 3 players, 2nd, rf, cf, called to catch it. All 3 swerved off short of a collision, and overran the ball. Somehow slow Mueller beat the throw to the plate. Never saw anything like it.

Polo Grounds were my all time favorite baseball field. [Feels good to tell that one. Thanks for you to enable me to grab the opportunity].