Then

From Joe Poz (Joe Posnanski, “Chasing 3,000 Ks,” Joe Blogs (May 19, 2025) [link]):

• When I was a kid, the big ballpark promotion was Bat Day. There were other cool giveaways — ball day, jacket day, cap day, T-shirt day, I think we did all of them because my father has always believed in getting value for his dollar — but bat day was the big one. I mean, they really used to give full-size (well, Little League-size) baseball bats to thousands and thousands of people. Were we a better society then? I mean, that obvious answer is: No. We were definitely NOT a better society then — for about 10,000 reasons. But it was a time when they could give bats to, say, 10,000 or 20,000 people and be confident that people would not use them to beat each other. That’s something.

Yeah, actually it is something.