And I do — especially today. Thanks to everyone so much for the wonderful notes, and the Met-memories which are just great.

Regarding a screw-up that’s a memory trick more than anything else. A few people have written in to tell me, gently, that Bobby Richardson was never traded. (One guy asked me, not so nicely, how I could be so dumb to write such a thing without looking it up when it’s so easy to check.)

I appreciate the heads-up. But these are the memories of snatches of conversation from when I was less than 12. As I said in the piece, I don’t know why my dad stopped rooting for the Yanks — I’ve always wondered about it, and, while I don’t think it was one thing as opposed to a bunch of things, I have a very vague memory that it had something to do with Bobby Richardson. Obviously, somewhere along the line, my mind turned that memory into a trade that never happened. But that’s how it goes with childhood memories.

Again, thanks so much to the great NRO audience — full of baseball fans who bring the good old days back to life.