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My mom and Mark Lemke

by Joe on May 13th, 2008

As part of our channel-wide post this month, we’re all posting a favorite childhood memory involving sports. While I’ll try to keep it as short as possible, it’s going to be kind of hard, but here goes.

Back in 1991 was my first time really getting into baseball. Sure, I remember where I was when Kirk Gibson won the first game of the ‘88 World Series, but I never really got into the sport until I could watch it and analyze the game. Turn to the summer of 1991. I remember the exact day I became a Braves fan, but what I will always carry with me are the memories from that season when the Braves tore through the NL on the way to the World Series.

Honestly, I don’t remember the year my parents got divorced, but anyway, my mom and I have always been really close and we bonded so much that year. She began to take an interest in watching baseball with me and learning about the game as I did. We would watch the games on TBS whenever we could and I remember watchng the playoffs with her and going up and down as the Braves advanced to the series. I remember her favorite players were David Justice (she thought he was hot) and Mark Lemke (because he was the smallest guy on the team and came through in the clutch in the Series).

I can remember us cheering in our little apartment here in San Antonio (probably waking the neighbors, but who cared) and I’ll never forget just sitting there in front of out TV, following a game the entire country enjoyed. Eventually, she took me to my first minor and major league baseball games (she’ll never go back to the Missions after nearly being hit twice by foul balls and she got then-San Diego Padres outfielder Rickey Henderson to give me a ball at some sparsely-attended game in the Astrodome).

I know this is short and less detail than I like to give, but this is not only my most-cherished sports-related memory, but simply one of my most-cherished.

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