Nostalgia and the Art of Remembering

My baseball team played a game Saturday at League Park in Cleveland. For those who don't know League Park, it is a restored baseball park on the near east side. I have been told that it is the only original structure from its era other than Fenway Park and Wrigley Field. All other stadiums of that era were razed to the ground and stuff built on top of it. League Park was the host to professional baseball from the turn of the century all the way until 1946.

The field itself was remade (see picture below by my creative photo savvy spouse) to exactly the dimensions of the original ballpark including the short 295 foot fence in right field, which has a high 40 foot fence (even higher than the famed 37 foot Green Monster fence of Fenway). The other parts of the field were 380 feet to the outfield. Quick side note - I hit a blast to the fence on Saturday but because I popped a quad muscle during the week I only ended up with a single. My manager called it the longest single in League Park history. We envisioned that Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig played on this field. Bob Feller pitched here and all the greats of one of the most famous eras of baseball.

The word remember or recall occur 167 times in the Bible. As I look through the list, these are some of the themes:

• Remember events such as Passover
• Remember people who preceded you
• Remember the goodness of God
• Remember the sacrifice of God
• Remember the commandments of God
• Remember what you were like before
• Remember the days of your life or the days of old 
• Remember God's holy word
• Remember the brevity of life
• Remember if your brother has something against you 

Apparently God wants us to remember stuff. It seems like our culture today is stuck in the now. Remembering is healthy in context.